Thieves steal Sea Scouts sailboat, leave worse one behind

Worse things happen at sea

Someone in Marina del Rey pulled off a low-effort act of piracy: stealing a Sea Scouts sailboat and leaving behind a beat-up replacement, complete with swapped registration numbers to delay anyone from noticing.

A leader of the troop (Sea Scout Ship 16) first noticed that the 1979 Islander sailboat named “Island Hopper” was missing from its slip on Satur…