Feinberg v. Insurance of North America

ALDRICH, District Judge.

This is an action by an insured under a policy of marine insurance following the scuttling of the yacht Mariposa. The vessel was a Chris-Craft twin-screw cabin cruiser, 42' long, with a beam of 13' and a draft of 3. She was luxuriously, if not ostentatiously, built, with appointments of an obviously expensive na*687ture. The plaintiff docked her at a marina in the Neponset River in Dorchester. Various other boats were kept lower down the river. When the Mariposa proceeded she carried either a bow wave nr a wake of sizeable proportions, causing serious annoyance to other…