09/21/2025
When I took measurements of the boat back in August, the Endeavor was 40 feet long, 10 feet wide at the stern, and 15 feet tall with the cabin & fly bridge.
We inquired about arranging transport with several companies and at that height, we’d need a flag es**rt truck & an additional oversize load permit for transport. So, to get the Endeavor from Riverside Marina to its new home, we spent the better part of two days lowering the overall height by removing the cabin & flybridge.
The cabin was mostly rotten, waterlogged plywood.
Every minute of cutting and grinding released decades old dust into the air. Luckily, it had been a breezy week and the dust didn’t linger.
In addition to the copper commemorative coin, we also found two danforth anchors in decent shape, but nature had taken its toll on the the 600+ feet of bright yellow poly line attached to them and all the rope went in the dump trailer my dad delivered.
By the end of day two we’d filled the dump trailer my dad brought us to the top with plywood, fiberglass, and rope. The bed of the truck was full of scrap metal- steel support poles, aluminum railing, stainless steel cables, copper sheeting from the ceiling of the cabin. We also filled 10 hefty trash bags full of all the small bits of debris that were left over. Oh, and about 50 lbs of soggy pine needles. Mike Rowe probably would have made this an episode on “Dirty Jobs”.
