The Westlake Pirates

That's the boat, as seen by Windows Live Local, a new service by Microsoft that's meant to compete with Google Maps and Google Earth. The marina image in Google Maps (see the above link) is at least three years old, given the condition of Westlake and the parking lot, both of which were reconstructed by the city in 2004, and Google Earth uses the same images, so in both regards they're not as good.

The Live Local image shown above is much more recent, since we're in it. By the looks of the marina, it was taken last summer, perhaps in June. You can see the whole image here and wander around. It defaults to a more distant zoom, so click the big building image at top left to zoom in to the highest resolution. The one thing Live Local lacks is high-resolution images outside of major metropolitan areas, so Google's got them beat in that regard, even though the zoom on LL is a lot better (and more recent!) where it exists.

This at least explains some of those mysterious helicopters we saw hovering around town last summer...