Edgartown police recovered a boat stolen from Edgartown Harbor early Friday morning, 12 hours after it was reported missing. Tisbury assistant harbormaster John Crocker found the white 32-foot Everglades with twin 350 Yamaha engines on the opposite side of the Island, in Lake Tashmoo.
Edgartown resident Geoffrey Caraboolad reported his boat missing from the pier in front of the Harbor View Hotel at 7 am Friday morning. According to a police report, he reached out to everyone he thought might use the boat, valued at $250,000, but no one had seen it. He told police that he had one set of keys, but another set might have been on the boat overnight.
Police alerted the Coast Guard, Nantucket police, Island harbormasters, the Falmouth harbormaster and Massachusetts Environmental Police.
Twelve hours later, the boat was located in Tisbury.
Mr. Crocker told police he was about to leave for the day when he saw a police email about the missing boat. He remembered seeing a boat that matched the description on a mooring in the lake earlier that day.
“The vessel was in perfect condition, engines up, and powered off completely,” police said. “It was shut off at the kill switch below the deck.”
The boat’s key was found in a compartment next to the throttle. Police used electronic equipment in the boat to track its recent routes. They discovered the boat was taken at 2:45 am that day, and it arrived at Lake Tashmoo an hour later.
Police said nothing was out of the ordinary on the boat, except for a glass beer bottle in the fish compartment in the back of the boat. They plan to fingerprint the bottle.