Here we see the good schooner American Eagle as the first light reached her in Great Cove yesterday morning, where she overnighted.
She sailed out with a fair wind at about 11 a.m. yesterday. She’s on a four-night fall color trip, according to her schedule. She probably will have been the last coastal cruiser that we see this year.
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 patriotically renamed American Eagle.
She fished until 1983 and then went through difficult times until she was totally renovated in 1986 as a tourist coastal cruiser. She has since become a National Historic Landmark. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 4, 2023.)