Description
Enjoy a three hour cruise on Bald Eagle. Depending on the wind and weather our cruise could explore the Cape Ann coastline or stay in the harbor and see the sights Gloucester has to offer from the water. A light meal with drinks will be served as you enjoy the beauty of sailing on one of Gloucester's smaller, but well known schooners. Time to be arranged. Maximum number of people: 6.
About the Schooner Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle was designed and built by two men whose names are associated with sea-kindly and beautiful wooden vessels: Crocker and McIntosh. Sam Crocker designed more than 300 vessels. Bud McIntosh was a designer and builder of large and small cruising boats for more than 50 years and built many Crocker designs. Her graceful lines were taken from Gloucester fishing schooners. Bald Eagle came out of McIntosh’s Piscataqua River boatyard in 1955. She is 37’ on deck, white oak frames, mahogany planking, fir spars and two tons of iron on the bottom of her full keel. She is gaff rigged, carrying a Yankee (jib) off her bowsprit, staysail, foresail and mainsail. Her name, Bald Eagle, is because she is a bald headed schooner, carrying no topmasts. Her wheel is from the Lunenburg Foundry, her mast hoops were made by the skipper. In 2001 she spent 10 months in Harold Burnham’s boatyard in Essex getting an extensive rebuild. Paul Cole and Judith Nast have sailed the New England coast for the last 12 years aboard Bald Eagle.
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Photo by Carl Gustin