Mystic — Workers at Mystic Seaport Museum's Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard on Thursday were putting the final touches on repairs to the historical schooner Victory Chimes.

The schooner, launched in 1900 in Bethel, Delaware, to work the Chesapeake Bay cargo trade, is now a member of the Maine windjammer fleet carrying passengers along coastal Maine.

Victory Chimes has been in Mystic since the beginning of May for maintenance and a Coast Guard inspection. Once work is completed early next week, the ship will return to Maine for a belated start to the summer season.

The vessel is owned and captained by Sam Sikkema, who served as chief mate for the 38th voyage of the Mystic Seaport Museum's historic wooden whaleship Charles W. Morgan. Sikkema said neither of the two shipyards in Maine capable of hauling the Victory Chimes, which is 127 feet long, were available this spring, so a trip to Mystic, with its staff of experienced wooden boat shipwrights, was the best option.