THE BOAT GIVEAWAY IS OVER!
There are no boats left to claim. Please don't ask, and please don't come looking.
The boats currently on Cuesta Inlet are NOT TO BE DISTURBED in any way. Don't move them, board them, strip them, or take anything from them.
Thank you for helping us protect the Inlet.
Boat ID submissions are closed. Thank you for the quick and generous response. We've reached capacity and can't take more entries. If you've already submitted, we've got you.
In less than three hours, more than 30 Save Cuesta Inlet volunteers filled two dumpsters with 31 boats and 10 catamarans. All in all, we removed 75 boats from the inlet — some voluntarily removed by their owners, and the rest that had crossed into the "trash" category: abandoned, damaged, waterlogged, and no longer seaworthy, left to break down on the shoreline and in the water.
This was a huge undertaking led by our Boats Committee, who over the past year have made thousands of phone calls to boat owners, captured aerial footage and mapped the inlet, and documented every single boat — tracking the count down from 750 to 698. That's on top of countless hours of work behind the scenes.
ECOSLO also brought an additional 30+ volunteers who have collected 200+ lbs of trash, including broken boat pieces, disintegrated oars, rebar, plastic bags, misc plastic, and more. Thank you, ECOSLO and Waste Connections San Luis Obispo, for each sponsoring two dumpsters!
THE VOLUNTEERS REMOVING DERELICT DAMAGED BOATS FROM THE INLET.