Month: May 2008

Lobster Cove 4:46AM 5/25/08

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The place where I took this photo is an incredible spot to go striper fishing from land.  The stone bridge regularly produces huge striper bass just inside Goose Cove or on the other side on the outgoing tide.

Lobster Cove 4:46AM 5/25/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Where The Locals Go Coupon Spotlight- Cape Ann Coffees

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Where The Locals Go

Today’s Where The Locals Go coupon book spotlight is on Cape Ann Coffees in East Gloucester. The meeting place for Gloucester’s Old Guard of politicians, Cape Ann Coffees offers three coupons in the Where The Locals Go coupon book.
The first coupon is buy one coffee/espresso drink get one free. The second coupon is buy one sandwich or wrap and get the second one 50% off. The third is for free soup with a lunch order.
So if you used all three coupons you would essentially pay for the paltry cost of the coupon book ($10) and still have a ton of other coupons to use and save more money.

Where The Locals Go Coupon Spotlight- Cape Ann Coffee, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Sig Hansen from The Deadliest Catch Appearance

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sig Hansen, captain of the f/v Norwestern featured on the Discovery Channel Show “The Deadliest Catch” will be making a public appearance to benefit the Plum Cove playground on Sunday, June 1st at the Gloucester House Restaurant.

We are trying to raise $10,000 to rebuild our playground . We are a few thousand dollars away from our goal. If we reach the $10,000 milestone, then we will receive a corporate match of $10,000.

Tickets are available for $15 and includes chowder and hors d’oeuvres and an opportunity to meet Sig. Cash bar. Raffle prizes.

Special thanks to our sponsors The Gloucester House, Cape Pond Ice, Capt. Joe & Sons, North Shore Builders.

For ticket informatin contact Kristin Michel at kristinmichel@comcast.net or 978-290-6035
or Jamie Marshall at jmarshall@tridentseafoods.com or 978-317-0213

Building Center Piling Field

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Click any picture on the blog and then select “all sizes” to see it full size and in great clarity.

Building Center Piling Field, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

This underutilized piling field is a direct result of lousy zoning that does not allow for any recreational boat dockage.

Under the proposal from the waterfront stakeholders, the owner of this site could build newly permitted dockage on this site if they would provide newly built fishing boat tie up spots on 25% of whatever could be created and 75% of anything newly created could be for recreational boat dockage. Right now zero of this space can be used for recreational boat dockage and it is a direct reason why the site sits fallow and underutilized.

If the property owner could create that 75% of newly created dockage for recreational slips in a site where he could never finance and make the project work financially based on 100% fishing boat dockage this site could be improved and pay more taxes to the city.

To simplify-

Whatever fishing boat dockage that exists does not get displaced as to protect the baseline of what we have for the fishing industry right now.

Whatever can be created new in unused waterfront space the property owner would need to provide 25% of that newly created dockage strictly for new commercial boat slips. The other 75% of the newly created dockage could be used for recreational boats.

The 75% of newly created recreational boat dockage would subsidize the 25% commercial boat non profitable dockage. Without allowing the recreational boat component then sites like this never get developed. How could it be if it wasn’t allowed a use that is profitable?