South Street Seaport Museum announces the Launch and Learn Father’s Day Ecology Sail aboard the 1885 schooner Pioneer on Sunday, June 18, 2023, at 12pm, departing from Pier 16 (Fulton and South Streets). Celebrate Father’s Day by embarking on a family adventure with dad or come solo to broaden your own horizons. Tickets are $50 for adults and $20 for kids, with discounts available for seniors, students, and members. seaportmuseum.org/pioneer-program-sail

The Father’s Day Ecology Sail is a fun-filled and educational three-hour voyage invites you and the father figure in your life to actively participate in studying the estuary’s ecology, interpreting navigational charts, measuring water quality, and deploying a trawl net to catch organisms from the depths of New York Harbor. You can rest easy knowing that all organisms caught in the trawl net will be released afterwards!

The Father’s Day Ecology Sail is part of the Seaport Museum’s monthly Launch and Learn Sunday Sails, which an incredible collection of sails enhances the Museum’s already fantastic daytime sailing experience with an array of fascinating events. General Admission to the Seaport Museum is included with your Father’s Day Ecology Sail tickets; you may attend the Museum anytime from 11am–5pm on the day of your voyage.

About the Schooner Pioneer
Schooner Pioneer is an award-winning sail training vessel teaching volunteers traditional maritime skills and the art of tall ship sailing. In the days before paved roads, small coastal schooners such as Pioneer were the delivery trucks of their era, carrying various cargoes between coastal communities: lumber and stone from the islands of Maine, brick on the Hudson River, and oyster shell on the Chesapeake Bay. Almost all American cargo sloops and schooners were wood, but because she was built in what was then this country’s center of iron shipbuilding, Pioneer had a wrought-iron hull. She was the first of only two cargo sloops built of iron in this country and is the only iron-hulled American merchant sailing vessel still in existence. By 1930, when new owners moved her from the Delaware River to Massachusetts, she had been fitted with an engine, and was no longer using sails. In 1966 she was substantially rebuilt and turned into a sailing vessel once again. Now she plies the waters of New York Harbor carrying adults and children instead of cargo in her current role as a piece of “living history.”

About the South Street Seaport Museum
The South Street Seaport Museum, located in the heart of the historic seaport district in New York City, preserves and interprets the history of New York as a great port city. Founded in 1967, the Museum houses an extensive collection of works of art and artifacts, a maritime reference library, exhibition galleries and education spaces, working 19th century print shops, and an active fleet of historic vessels that all work to tell the story of “Where New York Begins.” seaportmuseum.org

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