The law did a background check on the hand writing vs my writing and they seen the signatures did not match . They just told me I would have to find it and they would go from there. It happened to me with a sea ray as well. I found it up in trio. The guy lisited it on Craigslist and it was left on a property he had bought. Believe it or not but it was actually the main sheriff's son that had it. I gave him 100 bucks and we were all happy. I'm even willing to buy the boat . I have so many memories on that boat.