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[StartQuote] Hi, All After seeing Teds 1974 photo of the PT59/Sea Queen 5 I thought what a sad end for this boat. Out of interest I did some digging on Google Earth using the address on Teds photo, I did not expect much but gave it a try anyway, imagine my surprise when I had found the area that there appeared to be a rather large dilapidated pier in the area where she is shown in the photo. After a bit of looking though I found that what appeared to be a pier seemed to have a rather interesting tapered end and very few pier supports that one would see if one was looking at a pier! I wondered why after all this time that so much was still visible if it was indeed the 59 Boat, after further investigation I found that a local of the area had produced a number of videos of the area and that from a depth of around 8' at the time of the photo the cove that she rests in has silted up and is now mainly mud flats. This has had the effect of raising what remains of the boat up so that what remains of the deck is now a foot or so above the water, this is clearly seen in the video as he walks along the deck at what appears to a fairly high tide. Now I have hit a snag, Lew on the board has sent me a flyer to the effect that there is a push on by a local developer to clear the cove out and an area of the Harlem River and concrete over all of the area thereby beautifying it? Don't you LOVE developers!! The videos that are on Utube are all 2012 and Google earth dates are 2014 so I don't have anything of the area for the last 2 years, I was wondering if there is someone on the board that may live in New York City and would like to visit the cove to see if she has been removed or she remains. If she remains then a few recent photos would be great . The area I am referring to is Inwoods North Cove next to the 207th Street Bridge. There are what appears to be two piers alongside the road on the side of the cove next to the rapid transit yards, the one in the centre is the one I am looking at, the other pier towards the end leads out into the Harlem River and was once a fairly large pier. So if there is someone out there that might like to take a look at what could turn out to be the 59 Boat, let us know what you find. Yours, Dave.[EndQuote]
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