Mary Celeste: the boring explanation is probably right and somehow that's WORSE

Reposting my own teardown from a sailing forum because it kept getting buried there. The ghost-ship legend: brigantine Mary Celeste, left New York Nov 1872 for Genoa, Capt Briggs + wife + their 2yo daughter + crew of 8. Found a month later drifting off the Azores by the Dei Gratia. Sails up, seawort……