Well, it’s finally done. After months of speculation and uncertainty, “Deep Thought,” the abandoned boat that washed upon the rocky shores near McKinley Beach in October of last year, finally sold after a two week auction period run by Milwaukee County. The final sale price? A mere $2,525, a far cry from the $20,000 the county was hoping to gain from the sale. The boat was sold to Jeff Piller, owner of All-City Towing, the same company that pulled the boat from the lake back in May.

Officials previously said that taxpayers will need to cover whatever remains from the $20,000 the county needed to pay to remove the boat from Lake Michigan back in May. With the $2,525 sale, the remaining costs associated with the boat’s removal sits at $17,475, or about $0.02 for every inhabitant of the

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