CASTINE (AP) – The historic schooner Bowdoin has reached the northernmost point of its two-month training cruise for Maine Maritime Academy students.

The 88-foot wooden vessel arrived Monday night at Hareo Island off the coast of Greenland, about 240 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

To mark the occasion, the crew and students held a “farthest north” ceremony, which included sparkling cider, blueberry doughnuts and a swim in the icy Arctic waters.

The schooner is now headed south with one more planned stop in Greenland before sailing east toward Canada. It is scheduled to return to Castine by the end of July.

Built in 1921 in East Boothbay, the Bowdoin made 25 expeditions to the Arctic Circle under the leadership of Adm. Donald MacMillan until 1954.