After decades of ownership and preservation by the Grand Banks Schooner Museum Trust, the Zwicker was put up for sale in 2012. Last year, the Trust entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Sherman Zwicker to the Maritime Foundation of Delaware and New York City, a new non-profit created by brothers Alex and Miles Pincus, who promise to preserve the ship's heritage by operating her as a nonprofit museum ship below decks and a forprofit seasonal oyster bar called "Grand Banks" on deck from May to October. The ship is now berthed at Pier 25 in New York City at the Hudson River Park, home to other historic ships including the 1933 lighthouse tender Lilac and the 1907 tug
Pegasus.
Sherman Zwicker was a transitional design, bridging the gap from all-sail fishing to diesel propulsion , but in time she was made obsolete by faster and more efficient fishing vessels and methods. When she retired from her fishing career, she was immediately recognized as one of the last of her kind. Her new owner, Captain George McEvoy of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, converted her into a museum ship but kept her fully operational. He created the Grand Banks Schooner Trust to own, maintain, and operate the vessel. For more than thirty years, the Zwicker docked at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine, where docents provided tours to museum visitors. Each fall, the schooner left Bath under her own power and motored down the Kennebec River to winter over in nearby Boothbay Harbor. Under sail in the North Atlantic. SEA HISTORY 150, SPRING 2015
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