Please sir, some assistance?

We were at the marina, heading out on the pontoon yesterday when I spotted what looked like a dead animal in a piling.
Turned out it was a live, small racoon that had tried living on board a sail boat.
The owner had opened the anchor locker and out popped the racoon.
The owner nudged the racoon with a stick to try to get it to leave the boat.
It jumped into the water and swam to the adjacent piling.
There it sat for hours.
When we came back from our afternoon on the boat it was still there and was being dive bombed by barn swallows.
Racoons are nest predators and enjoy eggs for breakfast or any other time for that matter.

He shimmied down the piling to get away from the birds but had nothing to hang onto, so he went back up and suffered in silence.

He could have swam to shore easily, it was only 20 feet away but there he stayed.

I received an email from the boat owner who confirmed that he had rescued the racoon who was sitting on the bow of the boat.
Full circle.