I'm Just Kidding. It's All Made Up

In 1641 sailor John joslin produced a work called an account of two voyages to New England. In it he documented his sighting of what later became known as the Gloucester sea serpent It was sighted off the coast of Cape Anne in in Massachusetts and joslin recorded a massive snake that quote Lay quailed up like a cable upon the rock at Cape Anne after three years another sighting of the beast would be seen near Lynn, Massachusetts this sighting would provide an estimated length of 89 feet 89 feet for context.