Next came the Detroit-based wrecking tug Winslow . Its crew managed to make a hawser fast to Hetty Taylor 's mainmast and claimed to have moved the vessel a little westward toward the shore. The mast, however, gave way before they could move it appreciably. Bad weather finally forced the Winslow to give up and return to Detroit.

Looking forward towards the Hetty Taylor 's bow.

In late April 1881 the wrecking schooner Experiment, under the command of Capt. M. Beffel of Racine and contracted by Capt. John Archer of Milwaukee, attempted to salvage the Hetty Taylor . The wrecking party relocated the wreck through the efforts of local fisherman Ole Pike, who had taken careful bearings the previous fall. Pike put the salvagers within ten feet of the wreck. This cast doubt upon the Winslow captain's earlier claims that he had moved the wreck. Salvage diver Peter Crowley made two brief dives on the schooner, but equipment problems limited his mobility. Returning the following week, Crowley had no success attaching lines, and the Experiment also abandoned the wreck. This seems to have been the final effort to refloat the little schooner.

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