As of Tuesday morning, that boat that ran aground near Bradford Beach is [drives past the site on Lincoln Memorial Drive, between McKinley Marina and MooSa’s restaurant] yep, still there.

The boat’s owners beached and abandoned the 33-foot Chris-Craft Roamer craft—named “Deep Thought,” in a possible nod to The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy— after it ran out of gas on October 13. No one was injured. The U.S. Coast Guard has been monitoring the boat. Plans for a commercial towing and salvage company to remove the boat at the owners’ expense have yet to come to fruition. (A Coast Guard official tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that “wind and waves have prevented the company from removing the vessel.”)

We haven’t talked to the current owners, but a member of the family who previously owned the boat reached out and told us they’d buy a couple of boat T-shirts if we made them. (We’re totally going to do that.)

So yeah, the thing has been sitting there for more than two weeks. It’s become quite the attraction, too. It’s all over the news and social media, and there’s always at least three people snapping pictures of it when we stop by. Speaking of which, here’s the boat on October 18 (notice the kayak)…


…here it is on October 23 (notice the lack of kayak)…


…and here it is on October 29 (notice the police tape and “I Closed Wolski’s” sticker)…


Godspeed, boat. Actually, no. Please stay where you are. Forever and ever. It’s the little things like you that make this town so fun and ridiculous.

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