We recently posted about Portside NewYork’s tanker Mary A. Whalen‘s 80th birthday. We also posted about the ex-USCG lighthouse tender Lilac‘s 90th birthday, which is tomorrow. (Stop by for cake.) And coming up next weekend, June 2, is the oyster sloop, A.J. Meerwald‘s 90th birthday. Hosted by Discover Delaware Bay, there will be a celebration with birthday cake, food, music, and birthday sails beginning at 11 a.m. June 2, at the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, in Port Norris, NJ. Sails on the schooner will be available at 12 PM, 3:45 PM, 5:30 PM, and 7:30 PM. The celebration will continue with a Boat Parade at dusk followed by fireworks.
The Bayshore Center is also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Meerwald being officially designated the Tall Ship of New Jersey.
The Bayshore Center at Bivalve is a non-profit organization that promotes the history, culture, and environment of New Jersey’s Bayshore region through education, preservation and example. It operates the Meerwald as a hands-on sailing classroom. It also operates the Delaware Bay Museum & Folk Life Center and offers shore-based programs at its campus and schooner’s home port of Bivalve in Commercial Township, on the Maurice River in Cumberland County.