Nautical Archeologist Art Cohn recommends in a new book a plan that would raise Benedict Arnold’s Revolutionary War gunboat, Spitfire, from the bottom of Lake Champlain. The multi-year, multi-million dollar recommendation would preserve the historic gunboat over several years at a Lake Champlain Maritime Museum conservation lab with plans to then make the gunboat the centerpiece of a new exhibition or museum on the New York side of the lake. Cohn believes it could take as many as 20-years and […]