Late last year, the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven launched a fund drive to make infrastructure repairs to the Dock Road building. And to make it a little more interesting, if the target goal of $10,000 was reached, museum president and founder Deborah C. Whitcraft was going to walk into the frigid waters of the Little Egg Harbor Bay. Thus the fund drive’s theme, “Freezin’ for a Reason.”

With the goal reached, the fundraising stunt was originally planned for Feb.