USCGC Eagle Part One

October 2, 2021 Traveling back from New Hampshire visiting our daughter Caitlin we were hoping to catch an earlier ferry, than the 6:30 pm we had reservations for in New London Connection enroute Orient NY. Unfortunately we were not able to get aboard the 3:30 pm ferry. While waiting in the standby line, I took a stroll down to the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, the 295’ training vessel for the Coast Guard Academy and was surprised that I was permitted to do a self guided tour of the upper decks. This was my first time aboard the Eagle since 1980 when she was laid up at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay Maryland. My ship, the US Coast Guard Cutter Woodrush WLB-407 was being refitted and updated. Eventually we would sail her through the Panama Canal and up to Sitka Alaska her new homeport. While in the Curtis Bay Yard I was able to reunite with Michael Roy, whom I went through Boot Camp with in February 1979. We were attached to graduating class November 103.