Historic Schooner Victory Chimes Arrives in New York For Seemingly Conversion to Floating Restaurant

Final Wednesday, the 123-year-old Victory Chimes was towed previous the Rockland Harbor breakwater, in all probability, ending her lengthy and storied service as a business crusing vessel. This Saturday, she arrived at Pier 25 in Manhattan on the Hudson River, the place she is predicted to be transformed right into a floating restaurant.  

In Might, the three-masted, gaff-rigged schooner was bought at public sale to Miles and Alex Pincus. The Pincus brothers at the moment function the seasonal bars and eating places Grand Financial institutions on the Sherman Zwicker, a 142′ lengthy wood auxiliary fishing schooner docked in Manhattan on the Hudson River, and the Pilot, an oyster bar on the Brooklyn waterfront on the ex-Highlander Sea, initially christened Pilot, a gaff-rigged topsail schooner in-built 1924.

The 128′ lengthy Victory Chimes is the final surviving Chesapeake ram schooner. She is a US Nationwide Historic Landmark and is represented on the Maine State Quarter, initially minted in 2003. 

The earlier proprietor and captain of the Victory Chimes was Sam Sikkema, who additionally owns the schooner Grace Bailey. Final week, the Grace Bailey‘s mainmast broke, killing one passenger and injuring three others.

Because of Mary Habstritt for contributing to this publish.