I was myself very skeptical of the "Wanderer" story, I thought maybe
folklore, a large yacht built in Setauket, NY outfitted with water
tanks for a trans-Atlantic voyage in the adjacent harbor, Port
Jefferson, NY and said to have left in 1858 and landed on Jekyll
Island, Georgia in 1859, discharging hundreds of Africans into
slavery. I thought it was folklore myself, perhaps. Then I found, a
ascendant was arguing with the wording on the bronze plaque back in
the early 1960s with the National Parks Service (a large iron cauldron
is there where they were first fed, in the 1930s cited as a
"playground of the rich") and a university in Georgia who had its
built origin in Port Jefferson, which he successfully had changed, a
William Minuse.

More recently I read on City Island, Bronx, NY in their nautically
oriented public library, that the British Navy as part of a slavery
blockade, actually boarded it and found a wonderful luxury yacht that
couldn't possibly be used to that end. Well apparently it was, left
the blockade and was very fast. I think I read somewhere that maple
syrup was mixed with the water to "feed" the human cargo on these
infamous boats or ships that a database has in known use until 1863.
"Wanderer" was used as a letter packet, very fast judging form the one
painting of "her" in possession of the Port Jeff Yacht Club (if it
still exists very small almost like "everyman's yacht club") and sunk
in the "fruit trade" off of Christopher Columbus' named point "Cape
Maysi" just north of Guantanamo, Cuba. I'd like to thank those that
have done the research that help keep the story true and "blue" and
helped me tell it. What was that Lousiana cotton merchant thinking!

George Myers