![]() Jones said he started out with a dream to buy a boat. 20 and started leaking fuel in Honolua Bay. Jim Jones’ luxury yacht, the Nakoa, ran aground Feb. “He shouldn’t be allowed to have a boat,” a former worker said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Several of his former workers have said he repeatedly ignored state boating regulations and skirted recommended safety practices, to the point where multiple people who worked with Jones said they quit because of risky behavior. ![]() That assurance may not be enough to persuade Maui politicians, community advocates and local mariners who say he shouldn’t stay in business at all. ![]() “We are taking full responsibility for this,” Noelani Yacht Charters owner Jim Jones said Thursday. The owner of a luxury yacht that ran aground last month in Honolua Bay is trying to salvage his reputation as efforts continue this week to remove his 94-foot Sunseeker from a delicate reef off Maui. Jim Jones says he wants to make things right, but former employees and Maui residents say he shouldn’t have a boat. ![]()
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