The next attempt to dispose of stranded fishing boats—from the American Challenger in Dillon Beach to the Point Reyes shipwreck that attracts tourists to the Inverness Store—will have to wait a bit longer. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration rebuffed a $14.9 million grant request to dispose of marine debris from a 30-mile stretch of Marin and Sonoma County coastline. 

The California State Lands Commission, which oversees the state’s tidal and submerged land, was…