The Pilot and Victory Chimes, two historic schooners, sank in the Henry Street Basin off the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, in early July 2026 while docked. ^[1] Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez's performance 'Marina' premiered at Manhattan's Little Island as part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial program. ^[2] Both schooners are owned by Crew, a New York City-based company that converts historic vessels into floating bars and restaurants; Crew acquired the Victory Chimes at auction about three years ago and the Pilot in 2015. ^[3] Crew CEO Alex Pincus said on 2026-09-02 that the company is working with insurers, marine salvage experts, and marine surveyors to determine what to do about the sunken boats, and that raising wooden vessels of this size is a highly complex operation. ^[4] The Victory Chimes, built in 1900, is the ship depicted on the 2003 Maine state quarter and is the last surviving Chesapeake ram, a type of flat-bottomed schooner. ^[5] Influencers within the performance's narrative peddle the doctrine that a woman can find self-worth only through a man's validation. ^[6] Marina faces the challenge of locating a sense of identity in her own existence rather than in the men she kills or the man she falls in love with. ^[7] The protagonist Marina, played by Martine Gutierrez, becomes entranced by a smartphone dropped into the Gowanus Canal and enters a world of endless scrolls and highlight reels. ^[8]