Piloting the A.J. Meerwald, New Jersey’s Official Tall Ship
TUCKAHOE – Jesse Briggs, one of the captains of New Jersey’s official tall ship, the A.J. Meerwald, grew up in a seafaring family in the tugboat business. But he gave up a higher-paying tugboat job in Hawaii to seek out his paradise at the helm of the Meerwald in the remote former oyster port of Bivalve.
By Lauren Briede and Robert Stern
