"The Point Reyes, whose name was prominently displayed on the ship for many years, had a fairly modest history, according to various accounts. Roadside America, a travel site featuring oddball attractions, says the ship was built in 1944 and used to transport military troops between their ships and San Francisco near the end of World War II.

It later became a fishing boat owned by Merrell Rocca used to catch salmon before being bought for rehabilitation, likely sometime in the late 1990s, and moved to Tomales Bay, where it eventually washed up on a sandbar in Inverness, which became its final resting place.

Who owns the boat and why it never got fixed up has been lost to sands of time — like the vessel itself. But the beached old boat soon became a tourist attraction, drawing photographers who captured it in various stages of its decay.

A 2016 fire, rumored to have been started by someone trying to photograph the boat with sparks in the background, caused significant damage."

- SFGate

https://www.sfgate.com/obscure...

Photo of Merrell Rocca provided by Freedom Rocca.

The rest of the photos from Flickr and WMF.

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