Life and Death in the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin: What’s Going on in the City’s Tydings Park Marina?

Much like the Hatfields and McCoys, this feud is over territory and owners’ right, but, rather than Kentucky backcountry, this fight takes place on the waters of Havre de Grace’s Yacht Basin.

First came the complaints of nuisance and negligent boat owners causing problems with fellow mariners at the Yacht Basin. Then came assertions of unequal treatment, unfair punishment and even unlawful operation and expenditure of taxpayer money at the city marina. Next we heard about improperly designed and incorrectly installed railings, parking spaces and other equipment.

And now we have a dead body.

Missing since late February, 53-year-old Donald Walter McGlothlin was found Monday on Swan Creek by a pair of fisherman. He had died from drowning and hypothermia, or perhaps some combination of the two.

Mr. McGlothlin was also one of the few residents of the Tydings Park Marina - he lived in a house boat on Pier 4. Continue reading Life and Death in the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin: What’s Going on in the City’s Tydings Park Marina?