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Northshore October 2025
Back when Tyler King was a kid leaving summer behind for the start of another school year, watching the massive wooden boats pull into the harbor for the Gloucester Schooner Festival made those seasonal segues a little easier. He weaved beneath their bowsprits in a single-cylinder diesel motor launch, watching crews run up the rigs and seeing the naval engineering he’d so avidly read about materialize before him. All the vessels at the festival looming larger than life—on the water as well as in King’s imagination—but the American Eagle, a 92-foot fisherman that was launched in 1930 in that very same harbor, stood apart. “I alway
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