| Adam Albino |
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All, I'm a doing some research , and trying to locate a particular Yacht that was sunk in/around Boston Harbor. The Yacht is the Herreshoff "Wasp" (a 72' Racing Sloop). She is listed as "scuttled in Boston Harbor - 1923". Would anyone know where? |
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| Jeff Goodreau |
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Hi Adam, My friend and I spent several years side scanning the Boston Harbor area. We covered from roughly Calf Island north to Nahant and a little east of Winthrop east of the Graves (looking for the Shag) We found nothing in that area that fits what you are looking for, there are many Barges and a few fishing boats. I can tell you this, the area is hard on wrecks with most of the 1940's wrecks are nothing more than a small debris field if we could find them at all. I would recommend narrowing your search area as much as possible and mowing the lawn with side scan very carefully. Your target is small and at that age there probably isn't much left of it. The bottom is very soft and has a tendency to bury low lying wrecks completely.
Good luck, Jeff Goodreau
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| Adam Albino |
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Thanks for the reply Jeff.I can narrow it down to the inner harbor - or one the the tributaries - assuming she was scuttled at or near where this report was writen in the 1920's:
"20 LEE STREET MARBLEHEAD MASS Dear Father: April 12, 1927. {1927/04/12} ... The hull of the WASP is now sunk near one of the briges that I go over by automobile when going to Boston. She is lying on her side and when the tide is low is about a third out of the water. I believe she has been sunk here four or five years and it is very interesting to note that she is still true and fair. Her shear looks perfect and as the water level now cuts across her like a buttock line the curves down through her bilge are absolutely fair. Her construction and scantlings must have been just about right for her weight; in fact it seems to me that she held her shape better than some other more recent boats. " (Source: Mystic Seaport Museum, L. Francis Herreshoff Collection, Box 17, Folder 3: Letter from L. F. Herreshoff to N. G. Herreshoff.)
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