Sometimes you just feel like a wreck.

By Colin W. Sargent

What becomes a “lazy-man’s shipwreck” most? The quintessential example used to be the Hesper and the Luther Little in Wiscasset. A generation of diners at Le Garage remembers seeing these two lumber schooners hauled up in full view on the other side of the large observation windows. When the ships finally collapsed into a heap of debris the town had no choice but to remove, their absence was so magnificent, and so acutely felt by sentimental observers, they still look for them when they walk into the restaurant. Which brings us to this story. If you don’t feel like scuba-diving or fathoming the seas with fiber-optic cables, what easy-to-view shipwrecks exist today?

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