“A FISHERMAN’S STory”

SUBJECTS: Capitan Jimmy Mears

SCULPTOR: Brian Hanlon (1961- )

MEDIUM: Bronze

LOCATION:  The Fisherman's Story Memorial Park,

203–213 Broadway,

Barnegat Light, NJ 08006e

YEAR DED.: July 27, 2013

The depicts Captain Jimmy Mears at the helm of a tiller. Jimmy Mears was a Barnegat Light commercial fisherman who spent essentially his whole life on the water, running boats out of the inlet for more than three decades. He was lost at sea on January 11, 2012, when the Mandy Ness capsized roughly ten miles off Long Beach Island. His family and the fishing community raised this memorial in his memory and in memory of every fisherman from the port who never came home. Brian Hanlon sculpted him as he was known on the dock — at ease against his rig, looking out toward the inlet. The statues were washed using non-ionic detergent.  Surface corrosion was minimized using Biox and soft brass brushes.  Two applications of conservator’s one (1) hot wax treatment were administered, cooled and buffed.  A cold conservators wax applied and hand buffed.