Who We Are

The American Eagle is many things, an original New England working vessel, the very last Gloucester swordfishing schooner still in service & the very last fishing schooner built in Gloucester Harbor. But the funny thing about wooden boats is they embody the efforts of generations. So it is not only the schooner you are coming to visit on one of our adventures but its all the people and community that supports this amazing object.

After fishing commercially for 53 years, landing millions of pounds of fish year-round and supporting generations of families on Cape Ann, the Eagle was sold once again to be refit for the passenger service. She has since carried over 20,000 guests in the last 40 years and was dedicated a national historic landmark in 1991. Certainly an important artifact preserving such a unique pinnacle of technology. But, if you dig a bit deeper what the American Eagle upholds is far greater than just mere history.

Time is a fluid, it speeds, it slows and bends. Appearing to be linear but in fact is endlessly dynamic. Although time is always rooted in perspective and perception. In short how we feel within time bends time. We are dedicated at preserving through practice this completely unique perspective of our world through a change in perception. A place where time is not artificially, but deliberately slowed. Every moment- exactly how it is no more no less. A chance to remove ourselves from a speed obsessed world without the veil of fantasy just purely “within” the present. Every moment unique and curated by hand through the endless efforts of an enormous team of dedicated people. All while preserving this vehicle that brings so many different facets of life to one unparalleled terminus. Celebrating food cultures of so many different origins, nature at its most essential, social nuances and connection with newfound friends with the grand equalizer of technology that epitomizes thousands of years of evolution.