The current vessel was built in 2004, at Scarano Boat Building, Inc. in Albany, New York, and was sailed by volunteers through Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Michigan to the Michigan Maritime Museum, in South Haven, Michigan where she brings the area's history to life through educational tours, day sails, and school field trips.

She can also be found visiting ports throughout the Great Lakes for maritime festivals and American Sail Training Association races.

Her lines, spars, and sails are removed each October during the downrigging process, and inspected, repaired and/or replaced during ongoing winter maintenance by the volunteers of the ship's company.

The following April, the ship's company removes the vessel's cover and performs her uprigging over the course of two weekends.

USS Providence, John Paul Jones' first command as a captain, was a similar square topsail sloop.