Korpi v. United States

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

LANGFORD, United States Chief Magistrate Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The morning of June 5, 1995, Plaintiff Glen Korpi was sailing his sailboat Dialogue south along the California coast, in the vicinity of the Monterey Peninsula. By mid-afternoon, he had been plucked from the surf off Asilo-mar State Beach, California by a United States Coast Guard helicopter, and the Dialogue had grounded on the rocks.

Mr. Korpi contends that he was safely anchored, seaward of the surf line. He himself was in no distress, but his self-steering had broken and his engine had…