Stolen...

The 80-foot luxury sailboat that ran aground off a Pacifica beach early Monday was stolen from a Sausalito marina, police said.

The owner of the sailboat, the Darling, was watching news coverage of the incident Monday morning, took a hard look at the boat bobbing in the waves about 20 yards from Linda Mar Beach and realized it was his, said Sausalito police Sgt. Bill Fraass.

"He had the TV on when he realized that his boat had been taken and called us," Fraass said.

Three people are trapped on the boat and have so far refused the Coast Guard's assistance, said Petty Officer Tom McKenzie, a Coast Guard spokesman. Pacifica police officers joined the Coast Guard and local fire department when authorities discovered the boat had been stolen.

Officers stood on shore with their guns drawn a little before 11 a.m. and used a megaphone on a police SUV to order those onboard to leave the boat's cabin and step onto the deck. The three people appeared to comply, but it was not immediately clear how police planned to get them off the boat.

Rescue crews from the Coast Guard and the local fire department had been monitoring the boat since it was spotted around dawn. Police believe the boat was stolen sometime around 1 a.m. Monday.

Before authorities realized the boat had been stolen, a Coast Guard swimmer was lowered from a helicopter and delivered a radio to the boat's crew.