I wasn't looking for a ship but she kept popping up when I was doing my searches. I was not a ship person or even a boat person for that matter but was intrigued by seeing a cruise ship on Craigslist. So I contact ed the owner and he gave me the contact information for the watchman. Soon after I arranged a day to travel out. I got the cameras ready and finally after much anticipation the day arrived. I was on my way to the California Delta for the first time.
It was a two hour journey from Santa Cruz but seemed worth it to tour a big dead ghost ship. I arrived to the delta to find a man who appeared homeless in his mid 30s waiting for me at a small marina a mile or so from where the ship was moored. He welcomed me but was not the nicest guy one could meet. We jumped in a dirty old Boston whaler and headed to the ship.
He asked for gas money on the way over and mentioned I could tip him also so that he could buy dog food. As the ship came into view I seen lots of rust.
The rust gather my attention more so then the beautiful lines. The entire hull looked like hell. So I started taking pictures as I originally set out to do with no real intent to buy a ship but to observe. We finally arrived and we had to climb multiple unsafe ladders up another derelict boat and across a plank about eight inches wide and 10ft long and a long drop if I lost balance in order to board the ship. Finally I was aboard.
My first observation was the piles of debris on the decks and trees growing from the rotting decks and old sun rotted mattresses scattered all over the place.
