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Parties Involved:
M/Y Risky Business
Defendant
Sausalito Yacht Harbor
Custodian

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAUSALITO YACHT HARBOR,

Plaintiff,

v.

M/Y RISKY BUSINESS,

Defendant.

Case No. 14-cv-03342-WHO 

ORDER DIRECTING VESSEL 

SALE AND AUTHORIZING CREDIT 

BID

CONSIDERING the Motion of Plaintiff SAUSALITO YACHT HARBOR for an Order 

directing the public auction of the DEFENDANT VESSEL in this action, that certain 1995 Sea 

Ray motor vessel of approximately 33.5-feet in length, U.S. Coast Guard Documentation No. 

1034017, and all of her engines, tackle, accessories, equipment, furnishing and appurtenances, and 

having considered the record in this action, and good cause therefor appearing,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that, consistent with Supplemental Admiralty Rule E(9)(B) 

and Local Admiralty Rule 9-2, the United States Marshal be and hereby is directed and 

empowered to sell said DEFENDANT VESSEL and her engines, tackle, accessories, equipment, 

furnishings and appurtenances, as is, where is, at public sale at the first available time and date, 

after having first caused notice of said sale to be published in The Recorder for six (6) or more 

consecutive days before the date of sale; and 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that such public notice specify the date, time and location 

for the sale of the DEFENDANT VESSEL; and

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, consistent with Local Admiralty Rule 9-2(b), the 

above mandated public notice shall specify that the last and highest bidder at the same shall be 

required at the sale to provide to the U.S. Marshal a minimum deposit in cash, certified check or 

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cashier’s check, the full purchase price if it does not exceed $1,000.00 and otherwise $1,000.00 or 

ten percent (10%) of the bid, whichever is greater, and that balance, if any, of the purchase price 

shall be paid in cash, certified check or cashier’s check before confirmation of the sale or within 

three (3) court days of the dismissal of any opposition which may have been filed; and 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any proceeds of said sale be retained by or deposited

by the United States Marshal in the Registry of this Court, pending further Order of this Court; 

and

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff, having a secured maritime lien interest in the 

Defendant Vessel pursuant to the Commercial Instruments and Federal Maritime Lien Act (46 

U.S.C. section 31301, et seq.) and being the only claimant in this action asserting a maritime claim 

against her, is authorized pursuant to Local Admiralty Rule 9-2(b) to credit bid at the auction of 

the DEFENDANT VESSEL, without payment of cash, a sum equal to its secured interest in the 

Defendant Vessel, consisting of the lien amount specified in PLAINTIFF’s Verified Complaint 

($11,158.69), plus its actual costs of suit through the date of the sale, including U.S. Marshal and 

other custodia legis expenses. However, as Plaintiff’s maritime necessaries lien interest in the 

DEFENDANT VESSEL does not, as a matter of law, include attorneys’ fees, such fees are not to 

be included in any credit bid Plaintiff makes. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 29, 2015

______________________________________

WILLIAM H. ORRICK

United States District Judge

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