The American Eagle arrived at Great Cove at dusk on July 4th and overnighted here, becoming transformed by yesterday’s dawn light into a gleaming symbol:
She’s on a seven-day 4th of July and schooner race tour, according to her schedule. We got a closer look at her later in the morning before she sailed off:
She sailed out of the Cove into Eggemoggin Reach at about midday:
The Eagle is a 90-foot, high-riding schooner out of Rockland, Maine. She was launched in 1930 as the Andrew & Rosalie, the last fishing schooner built in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1941, during World War II, she was renamed American Eagle. She fished until 1983 and then went through difficult times until she was totally renovated in 1986 as a coastal tourist cruiser. She has since become a National Historic Landmark.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on July 4 and 5, 2022.