Harrison Golden Aboard The Chassea, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Harrison Golden Aboard The Chassea
Month: July 2008
Harrison Golden Aboard The Chassea
Harrison Golden Aboard The Chassea, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Main Street Looking East
Main Street Looking East, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Billy Scrobacyz Aboard The Toots
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Mark Teiwes Shoots For seARTS At Captain Joe’s
Here Mark shoots for his seARTS project at our dock.
This from the seARTS press release-
“Mark Teiwes, ( Beverly ): – Partner – Captain Joe & Sons, E. Gloucester . Multimedia project on State Fish Pier
Mark will present a series of exterior diptychs combining documentary portraits of harbor-side workers inspired by Vincent Ferrini’s poem, At the Brink. Teiwes will focus on the strength, struggle and dignity of workers. The diptychs will be on exterior walls of fish pier businesses. An online audio slide show component will consist of the subjects of the portraits reading At the Brink. Mark has also offered to run a community photo workshop on night photography and environmental portraits.”
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Lobster Claw Regeneration Pictures
Here’s the first of some pictures I took of a lobster with a newly regenerating claw.
Lobster Claw Regeneration Pictures, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
From The Gulf of Maine Research Institute–
“Armored Arthropod
(External anatomy)
The first thing you notice about Homarus americanus, the “Maine” or “American” lobster, is its two strong claws: a big-toothed crusher claw for pulverizing shells and a finer-edged ripper claw resembling a steak knife, for tearing soft flesh. The lobster uses these claws, as well as smaller appendages around its mouth (mandibles and maxillipeds), for gripping and shredding its food. Besides its formidable front claws, the lobster also has eight walking legs, giving it ten legs altogether, which is why people who classify things call it a decapod.
The lobster usually crawls forward on its walking legs, but if it needs to make a quick exit, it contracts its tail forcefully and scoots backwards. When you first pick up a lobster, it frequently exhibits that flight response. Lobstermen call young lobsters, who do this a lot, “snappers.” Under stress, a lobster may also “throw” a claw or a walking leg, but it will eventualy regenerate a new, fleshy, “limb bud.” At the next molt, the lobster deposits a skeleton on the new limb.”
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Lobster Claw Regeneration Pictures
The new growth is soft and jelly-like. It almost glows deep orange in color.
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Chickity Check It-Another Wooden Boat Project
So I was poking around and found this project of a wooden boat restoration.
Check it out here-
Sheer Folly, Madness, and a Little Bit of Lust
Let’s hope they see it through.
For reference- Huge Mistake
Lazy Daizy Restoration Updates
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North Channel 4:50AM 7/23/08
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Beth Williams Studio -Gorgeous Stone Orgy
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Beth Williams Studio Stones and Beads
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Stanley Thomas Heading In
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Shout Out To Wendy!
What Up Chica?
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Molten Lava Chocolate Cake at Passports
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Broken Davit On The Hard Bottom
So George Hardy set out to go lobstering yesterday afternoon and within hauling of the first couple of trawls he busted his davit.
A davit is the boom that hangs out over the boat with a pulley that the line goes through to pull the traps up onto the boat. It hangs out away from the boat so the traps dont gouge the boat on their way up over the rail.
The reason his davit broke was because when he went to haul his traps up from the ocean floor there were four other lobstermen’s trawls set over his. so when he went to lift his trawl up, the entanglement of four other lobstermen’s gear was being lifted at the same time. Apparently it was too much strain for his old wooden davit and it snapped.
This time of year the lobsters are in close to shore so all of the lobster gear is concentrated in a much smaller geographic area. It creates much tension among lobstermen fighting for prime lobster bottom.
The result for George was a davit that snapped in half. Not good.
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The Hard Bottom’s Broken Davit
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Everyone’s Favorite- Slime Eels
View of Captain Joe’s From El Lobo Tower
View of East Gloucester Marine From El Lobo Tower
seARTS Partnership With Mark Teiwes
Congratulations to six local artists who have been awarded $9,000 from the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts to create site-specific projects based on Cape Ann ’s literary history. seARTS co-jurors – Susan Erony and Henry Ferrini were extremely pleased with the applicant pool which embraced the subject matter with enthusiasm. All but one project are using work of Vincent Ferrini –though in very different ways – evidence of his tremendous and lasting impact on the community. Each artist will show their work in collaboration with a local business. Some artists have already engaged a business partner but there are several still searching for the right match for their project. seARTS welcomes inquiries from interested business collaborators in any of the projects below that indicate partner/location to be determined. Business partners must be in downtown Gloucester or on the waterfront. The projects will be presented at an opening reception in October.
The recipients and partners are as follows:
Mark Teiwes, ( Beverly ): – Partner – Captain Joe & Sons, E. Gloucester . Multimedia project on State Fish Pier
Mark will present a series of exterior diptychs combining documentary portraits of harbor-side workers inspired by Vincent Ferrini’s poem, At the Brink. Teiwes will focus on the strength, struggle and dignity of workers. The diptychs will be on exterior walls of fish pier businesses. An online audio slide show component will consist of the subjects of the portraits reading At the Brink. Mark has also offered to run a community photo workshop on night photography and environmental portraits.
Willie Alexander, ( Gloucester ) – Partner on Main Street to be determined
Willie will produce a recorded singing of Ferrini’s poems over minimal musical accompaniment to be inserted into a soundtrack to be played on Main Street . There will be a live performance at the opening.
Susan Frey and Reverend Richard Emmanuel: ( Gloucester ) – Partner – Building Center- Gloucester
Susan and Rev. Emmanual will design and construct a Steele, an upright monument with text, using Ferrini’s poem, This House. They will be using scrap wood from the lumber yard and the sculpture will be in the corner of the parking lot near the Visitor’s booth. The sculpture will be 8x8x18’.
Martin Ray: ( Gloucester ) Building Center and other location to be determined.
Martin will create granite portraits of Olson and Ferrini on the grounds of the FHL house. The installation includes two foot tall granite carved “beach pebbles” inlaid with bronze and copper. These will be accompanied by bronze plaques with biographical and interpretive text.
Emily Sinagra: ( Gloucester ) – Partner and location to be determined
Emily will develop a theatrical performance based on The Wharf Rat’s Tale by R. Barry Fisher to be performed in nontraditional spaces. The story is about life on the waterfront during the Depression. The ensemble piece will continue beyond grant period. Emily would like to use local youth as the actors.
Ian McColl: ( Gloucester ) Dogtown Books windows and other locations to be determined.
Ian will produce a Shadow play production of Ferrini’s Telling of the North Star with expanded visual imagery and an original score. The opening performance will be in the window of Dogtown Books, visible and audible from the street.
The Partner with an Artist Program has evolved over the last 3 years with increasing interest and new thinking from artist applicants. This year, sixteen proposals were judged on quality and clarity of the project idea; inclusion of relevant literary texts in the conception or manifestation of the project; innovative adaptation/expansion of the artists’ work to meet the criteria of the grant; a willingness and ability to be site-specific in the project proposal; and merit of previous work.
The Partner with an Artist (PWA) program is funded by seARTS and through grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council John and Abigail Adams Art Program and the Boston Foundation Bruce J. Anderson Fund. For more information about seARTS, contact Sara Young, Executive Director ed@searts.org or visit www.searts.org .
Good Morning Gloucester 