Reddit reviews Eagle Seamanship: A Manual for Square-Rigger Sailing

Woo hoo it’s my cake day!!! Here’s the USCGC Eagle from Sail Boston 2017.

From the USCG site:

The USCGC Eagle is a 295-foot, three-masted barque used as a training vessel for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. Known as "America's Tall Ship," the majestic Eagle is the largest tall ship flying the Stars and Stripes and the only active square-rigger in U.S. government service.

Facts and Figures

Length of Eagle: 295 ft. (roughly equivalent to a football field)
Number of sails: 23
Sail area: 22,227 square feet
Tallest mast: 150 feet (roughly equivalent to a 15-story building)
Length of rigging: 6 miles
Working crew: 55
Maximum people capacity: 239
Weight: 1,655 tons (Eagle’s hull and decks are made of steel)
Speed under sail: 17 knots (20 mph)
Speed under power: 10 knots (11 mph)
Gallons of fuel oil: 24,215
Weight of anchors: 3,860 lbs.
History of Eagle

Built at the Blohm+Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, and commissioned as Horst Wessel, Eagle was one of three sail-training ships operated by the pre-World War II German navy. At the close of the war, the ship was taken as a war reparation by the U.S., re-commissioned as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle and sailed to New London, Connecticut, which has been her permanent homeport ever since.

Goodwill Eagle

USCGC Eagle’s primary mission is training cadets and officer candidates, but the ship also performs a public relations role for the Coast Guard and America. Eagle welcomes the public to visit during domestic port calls, and makes calls at foreign ports as a floating goodwill ambassador for US diplomatic relations. Eagle has hosted Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Truman.

She’s on tour now but will be back in July.

JULY 26-30, 2019
Swab Short Phase I begins.
LOCATION: NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT

AUGUST 1-5, 2019
Swab Short Phase II begins.
LOCATION: PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE

AUGUST 9-12, 2019
Swab Short Phase III begins.
LOCATION: SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

AUGUST 16-19, 2019
Disembark cadets. Summer training ends.
LOCATION: NEW YORK, NEW YORK

AUGUST 21 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
FEmbark Officer Candidates. OCS cruise begins.
LOCATION: NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT

SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 1, 2019
Port Call
LOCATION: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

OCTOBER 6, 2019
Disembark Officer Candidates. OCS training ends.
LOCATION: NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT

More info here. (USCG site)

Even a book was written about square rigging/sailing..

Here’s some more pics from the topside tour.

Edit: Thank you for the gold u/SumanSomaiah First ever and honored. ✌️👍

Edit: Added link to their active FB page.

Edit: Found a few YT videos from a Coastie who was aboard Eagle.
Part 1 - it’s origins in Germany (mostly)
Part 2 - Life aboard Eagle as a Coastie.

Edit: Added a walking tour of the main deck YT vid.

Edit: Added BBC link with video of a surviving German sailor. Also many personal stories in the comments. Link to BBC article

You could sit for a couple hours and watch Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Peter Weir was pretty obsessive about the technical details of the sailing of a ship. See what you pick up there. After that, hit up any of the Patrick O'Brian books.

For a more handy, long-term, and comprehensive reference, pick up a copy of the Eagle Seamanship Manual. You can get it mad cheap at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Seamanship-Manual-Square-Rigger-Sailing/dp/0870212516