Two months after it washed ashore just west of Gooseberry Island, Westport's derelict sailboat is finally gone — first pummeled by the storm two weeks ago, and a few days later cut up and dropped in dumpsters by the state.

“I don’t know, maybe there’s a few pieces still floating around somewhere, but the boat itself is gone,” Chris Leonard, Westport’s director of marine services, said.

The boat’s removal is good news to Leonard, who for  two months had tried without success to compel its owner to remove it.

The man, who was never identified publicly, beached the boat the night of Saturday, Oct. 21. He told Leonard and others that he’d been anchored in Little Compton’s Sakonnet Harbor earlier in the day. Apparently the boat slipped its mooring, somehow made it around the breakwater and headed east. The sailor said he only realized there was an issue when the boat ran aground — he’d been sleeping, he said.

After Leonard had trouble convincing the man to remove it, he contacted state officials. Earlier this month, Leonard got confirmation from the Department of Conservation and Recreation that the state would come out with dumpsters and heavy tools, cut it up and remove it.

The boat was heavily damaged during the no-name storm of Monday, Dec. 18. What was left was finally cut up and removed two days later, on Wednesday, Dec. 20.