The New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven is canceling its Sept. 12 fundraiser due to uncertainlies of the COVID-10 pandemic.

In a letter on the museum’s website, Executive Director Jim Vogel wrote, “We surely hope that all is well by then, but feel that having a gathering of 400 to 500 people would be uncomfortable at best, unsafe at worst. Every bit as important as that, however, is going to the business people for donations. Every year they step up in an amazing manner and donate to us with unfailing generosity.