Victory at Liquor Licensing Hearing!!!!!

Votes were in favor of serving booze outside (responsibly) during the Downtown Block Party!

 

If I were y’all I’d be on the phone tryting to make an outside reservation!

The Lady Jane Coming To Offload

The Lady Jane Coming To Offload, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

GoodMorningGloucester Gloucester Stickers Rock!

Recycled Tires Cut into Discs For Groundlines

This is a picture of a coil of ground wire that is covered with discs made from recycled tires.

The nets of a dragger travel across the ocean floor and can get caught up on big rocks but with the rubber discs surrounding the wire it will allow the dragger to go over slightly more uneven fishing bottom where fish may be hiding as opposed to the easy flat bottom in which a net would glide right over.

When they use much larger discs they are called rock-hoppers.  They will roll over much larger rocks instead of stopping the boat dead in it’s tracks or getting hung down on the big rocks.

Recycled Tires Cut into Discs For Groundlines

GoodMorningGloucester Stickers

T Malloy came all the way from Maine for his GoodMorningGloucester Bumper Sticker.

GoodMorningGloucester Stickers, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Passports Pulled Pork Quesadilla

Passports Pulled Pok Quesadilla, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Gloucester Perspectives- Susie Byrd

Part One of our interview with Susie Byrd. Backwoman extrodinaire who currently fishes the back of the boat for Dave Goetterman aboard The Black Sheep.

Pablo- Striper Assasin!

It’s been much slower on the striper front this year compared to last but every once in a while Pablo manages to land one.

God only knows how. He doesn’t hide the hook inside the chunk of herring, he just hooks it right through the side of the herring with the rest of the hook exposed. Most stripers are too smart to fall for that. They are generally very suspicious of anything that does not look natural floating through the water and to land a big fish more times than not you have to carefully plant that hook inside the bait so none of that hook is visible outside of the chunk of bait.

But every once in a while you get that suicidal striper that tosses inhibition to the side and dive bombs at Pablo’s hook.

Sucker!

Pablocito- Striper Assasin!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Fishermen Tattoos-Shawn Cromwell

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Lobster Trap Rocking Chairs Pic From Kristin Michel

This just in from guest contributor Kristin Michel-

“Hey Joe –

What do you make of this furniture? I was in Maine visiting my in-laws and just had to stop and take a picture for you. Believe it or not, the chairs are much more comfortable than they look!

Kristin”

Guerilla Art- Undercover Block Party Slide Show Testing

Ernie Morin, Lee Bolton and I perform set up for the first testings of our outdoor projection slide show.

At this point we have no clue if it will work. Questions abound.

Will it be dark enough?
Will the wall we plan to project onto be flat enough?
Will our power supply be sufficient?
Will the projector overheat and crap out?

As of yet we don’t know.

Stay Tuned