In October 1943, the schooner Lucy Evelyn, destined to become Beach Haven’s number one tourist attraction, lay beached and abandoned by its owners, at Vineyard Haven, Mass. In November of that year, it was sold at a U.S. Marshals auction, and its fate was uncertain.

Giles M.S. Todd would write a feature on the life of the Lucy Evelyn for a 1946 issue of Motor Boating Magazine. He picked up the story at this point.

“Not long after this a group of Cape Verde Islanders saw the schooner; she was what they wanted.