The American Eagle Has Been Completely Restored Meticulously And Can Actually Take Paying Passengers
(No slight to the well intentioned and passionate people who have donated millions upon millions to the restoration of The Schooner Adventure) It’s going to be awesome once The Gloucester’s Big Dig Adventure gets sailing but in the meantime you can get the last Gloucester built fishing schooner which is a proven turn key sail operation.
Thanks Anthony Marks for submitting-
Here’s the link to the listing- http://www.davidjonesclassics.com/sail/3464/american-eagle-92-gloucester-fishing-schooner-750000/
When I knew the American Eagle she was offloading whiting here at our dock- Captain Joe and Sons and she looked like she did in this first picture-
Frankie and I would nail the wooden box covers on the boxes of whiting to be shipped to New York’s Fulton Fish Market. If you would have told me back then that The American Eagle would ever have gotten the makeover it got and be selling in 2015 for $750,000 I would have laughed you out of the building. Probably one of the greatest success stories out of many failed dreams of restoring old, huge money to maintain wooden fishing boats.
Rosalie Parisi forwards this link back in 2012-
The American Eagle used to offload whiting and groundfish here at our dock back in the day. It was an eastern rigged dragger which most of the Gloucester fleet was back then and Captained by Rosalie’s father Captain Joe Piscitello.
The American eagle was bought from her father and converted into the boat she is now, a schooner. You can read all about it here- http://www.schooneramericaneagle.com/about/history.htm
and now this is what she looks like-
More GMG coverage of Modern Day American Eagle-
Good Morning Gloucester 