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Schooner American Eagle head for Boston on a gray breezy day
photo courtesy of Valery Vasilevskiy
Schooner American Eagle
November 2020
In this issue
Cruise News
Crew's News
Notes & Cards
The photographer posted the American Eagle moving right along on Facebook. I contacted him, and have permission to share it. We were on our way from Gloucester to Boston for the July 2017 tall ship festival. Enough of a breeze to give the staysail the day off!
the sun setting over East Penobscot Bay. Taken from aboard the schooner American Eagle.
image courtesy of Ralph Morse
That cruise was not all overcast. As it happens this is our view from anchor as the sun rises out of Massachusetts Bay the next morning.
Cruise News
Where we go and what we do.......
the schooner American Eagle at anchor at Star Island part of the Isle of Shoals
courtesy of Ralph Morse

At anchor in Gosport Harbor, Isles of Shoals.
The bow is in New Hampshire waters; the stern in Maine.
Thinking about next July and our trip to Portland Harbor, here in the early 60's. The schooner is the Portland Pilot, built on Brown's Wharf in 1931, converted to a windjammer in 1971 as the Timberwind, once again in Portland as a daysailer.
The white one astern of her is a "311" the USCGC Barataria WWII seaplane tender serving in the Coast Guard for Atlantic weather station duty. Her home port was Portland from 1949 to 1967.
There's always time for a laugh among shipmates; whether on your first trip or a dozen later. Half of the guests on any trip have been aboard before.
Crew's News
photo courtesy of Matthew Weeks
Matthew's knitting handiwork and his roommate trying it out
courtesy of Captain Flansburg

Christa and quarantined crew having Thanksgiving dinner
at Cafe Roseway in Charleston
photo courtesy of Sarah Collins
Sarah at home in Washington, Maine for Thanksgiving
photo courtesy of Linda Page
Andrew who crewed in 2018 is now in Conway, NH, and reports he made 200 pies this week: maple pumpkin and bourbon pecan. I think I know what he'll be doing if he's on for a trip next season with his cello.
Articles, notes, and cards from away
This note card features the artwork of Sam Manning.... It can be purchased from the WoodenBoat store. Sam rowed dories from college days for over fifty years and, among many other works, drew the cover for our first Lewis R French brochure in 1976.
Another notable postcard this month; the Malcolm Miller. Built in 1967 in Aberdeen, Scotland; her first years as a sail training vessel, then as a yacht, extensively rebuilt in 2014. Some summer we may see her cruising in Maine, I hope.

A schooner yacht of the 1920's in Boothbay Harbor. Either it's a shakedown cruise or she might be an early daysailer. Anyone identify her?



 And a correction from the October newsletter. The painting at the heading was done by Emile Gruppe; I confused him with Anton Otto Fischer who authored and illustrated Foc'sle Days, a favorite book from my childhood.
Turkey hen reaching for the suet feeder
Turkey dinner at our house the day before Thanksgiving...
whole hen turkey stuffing herself from our suet feeder.
Turkey hen standing on the deck railing eyeing the bird feeders
Thursday we woke up to the gobbling of fourteen turkeys in the yard. They refused to stand still for a family picture.
Be well (fed),
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Schooner American Eagle