Here you see the schooner AMERICAN EAGLE departing Great Cove on Sunday after overnighting there for the third time this coastal cruising season that I’ve seen. She was on a multi-day “Yoga & Sailing” cruise with “guided yoga and mindfullness sessions in mornings or evenings,” according to her schedule.
In 1930, when she was launched in Gloucester, Massachusetts, there probably were few people on deck doing the Downward-Facing Dog pose on a brightly-colored yoga mat. (Just a hunch.) Then, she was the Atlantic Ocean fishing schooner ANDREW & ROSALIE. She was renamed the AMERICAN EAGLE in 1941 by new fishing owners when World War II was brewing.
In 1984, the old and worn fishing schooner was purchased again and underwent a two-year, complete restoration in Rockland, Maine, to convert her into a 123-foot tourist cruiser. She was relaunched as a bright and classy coastal cruiser in April of 1986. She still hails from Rockland. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 10, 2025.)