What’s Up Newport Update – 12/2 at 12:46 pm: CORONET is scheduled to splash into Newport Harbor sometime between 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm, according to the Mystic Seaport Museum.
The journey from Newport to Mystic is expected to be an eight-hour trip that will end through the Mystic Bascule Bridge and up the Mystic River to the ship lift at the south end of the Mystic Seaport Museum, according to a press release from IYRS earlier this month. CORONET will reside there until restoration is complete, a process that is expected to take approximately three years.
Coronet was recently purchased by Crew, a New York-based company run by brothers Alex and Miles Pincus, according to IYRS. The purchase and continued restoration efforts of Coronet are in line with Crew’s notable history of historic vessel restoration. “Coronet is without equal. Her restoration is a calling that we feel destined to pursue,” says Alex Pincus, CEO of Crew.