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Tremont Select Board authorizes sale of abandoned vessel Jacqueline by sealed bid
Summary
The Tremont Select Board authorized selling an abandoned vessel removed from Bass Harbor, named Jacqueline, by sealed bid with a $2,500 minimum; proceeds beyond town costs are to be turned over to Richard Higgins.
Select Board Chair Jamie Thurlow and members met April 7, 2025, and authorized the sale of an abandoned vessel removed from Bass Harbor.
A motion by Select Board member Kevin Buck, seconded by Select Board member McKenzie Jewett, authorized the sale of the vessel named Jacqueline by sealed bid with a minimum bid of $2,500. The board specified that after 30 days any funds received above those owed to the town for maintenance, removal and legal fees will be turned over to Richard Higgins. The motion passed unanimously.
The board did not record additional instructions in the minutes about who will conduct the sale beyond the sealed-bid process or the timeline for posting the bid; those administrative steps were not specified in the record. The decision follows discussion of how to dispose of an abandoned/derelict vessel that had been removed from Bass Harbor and places the vessel on a sealed-bid process with a defined minimum and an allocation rule for net proceeds.
