Eviction notices at Wilmington marina

Live-aboard boat owner Bobby Salsbury is uncertain about his future. Port officials have labeled the marina’s dock and its 138 slips in Berth 204 too dilapidated to be safe.   (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Salsbury lies in his bunk at the Colonial Yacht Anchorage. Tenants say they feel blindsided.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Many of the boats moored at the marina are in as much disrepair as the docks themselves.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Maintenance on the docks and slips has declined, city and port officials say. There are golf-ball-sized holes in some of the floorboards of the docks; and a few of the smaller vessels are partially sinking.   (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Harold and Donna Hazelton aboard their 43-foot Grand Mariner. “I don’t know what we’re going to do,” Harold Hazelton said. “I don’t like living on land. I’ve been on water all of my life.”   (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

James Schneider, 71, and his wife, Faye Jeffries, 59, live aboard their boat. They are among 95 tenants who face eviction May 1.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)