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Imposter ship captain steals an 80-foot, $8 million boat with the crew still aboard

Allan Rose Hill
Feb 27, 2025
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On Washington's Pacific Coast, a man posing as a ship captain boarded a huge commercial boat, woke up the crew, and ordered them to head out into Grays Harbor. The crew just assumed the imposter was a new skipper assigned to the Jamie Marie, an 80-foot, $8 million fishing vessel.

Eventually though, the crew noticed he was "not…

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