The USCG Barque Eagle, 295 feet long and capable of deploying 23 sails with a total of 22,300 square feet of sail area, sits anchored in Casco Bay before completing the final leg of the journey from New London, Conn., to Portland.
Coast Guard Officer Peter Driscoll leads a team in navigating the ship around Peaks Island by use of manual plots. Though the Eagle is equipped with state-of-the-art radar and navigational systems, the crew maintains its location by recording bearings with alidades on each side of the boat.
A Coast Guard cadet goes aloft, the technical term for climbing up the mast of the ship. The mast on the Eagle is 147.3 feet tall and was climbed without any safety clips or harnesses before safety measures were implemented.
The Andrew McAllister, a Coast Guard tugboat based in Portland, shoots up water as it escorts the Eagle into Portland Harbor on Friday.
Swabs in their summer training program hold onto a large rope used to tie the Eagle to the dock in Portland Harbor.
Tugboats maneuver the Eagle into Ocean Gateway.
People take in the scene as tugboats maneuver the Eagle to a dock at Ocean Gateway in Portland on Friday.
The Coast Guard Eagle is docked at Ocean Gateway in Portland on Friday.
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