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Courtesy / Clark & Eisele, Bayshore Center at Bivalve
Lincolnville boatbuilding firm Clark & Eisele plans to restore the 1928 Delaware Bay oyster schooner on Belfast’s waterfront starting in September.
A Lincolnville boatbuilding company plans to restore a near-century-old oyster schooner on grounds the company will lease from the city of Belfast this fall.
The Belfast City Council recently agreed to lease a portion of city-owned waterfront land to Clark & Eisele Traditional Boatbuilding, which plans to restore the AJ Meerwald, an 85-foot schooner built in 1928 on the Maurice River in southern New Jersey.
Today the Meerwald, New Jersey s official tall ship and a classic example of a Delaware Bay oyster schooner, remains on the Maurice River (which locally is pronounced Morris ). The ship works as an educational platform, hosting school groups and visitors at the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, an environmental history museum in Point Norris, N.J.