Elliott’s at the Blackburn and Udine4less.com present Rhythms & Flavours Summer Extravaganza a free concert sponsored by Vista Motel, The Heights at Cape Ann and OneTouchDeals.com featuring Henri Smith New Orleans Friends and Flavours with Nat Simpkins and New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian, Gerald “The Giant” French. Special Guest Allen Estes. Sunday September 7 from 2-7pm at Stage Fort Park. Great food from local restaurants will be available for purchase. Bring the whole family and enjoy the fun.
Aaron just informed me that he is going to help with the plantings and has more exciting news from Corliss Brothers possibly donating to the cause also!
Thanks Aaron!
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Here Damon continues to search for the flags where the crews will turn around and head back to the beach while the junior crews prepare to race and Geoff Thomas looks on.
Here’s Mikey and Ringo preparing to toss the lines to the dock and tie her up. There has been an influx of dogfish where they fish which makes a mess of the nets and creates a ton of work picking through them to get to the whiting.
The problem with the dogfish is that there is a 600lb per boat per day quota and if you load up a bag with 5000lbs that you have to throw back overboard, it just isn’t a whole lot of fun.
Many lobstermen believe that this quota on dogfish is hurting the lobster industry along with the large size limit on striper bass as these predators devour baby lobsters.
This coming Saturday from 10 am ’til around 3 pm the IDRC will set up
our booth at the Heritage Center for “Schoonerfest 2008”. As well as
having an exhibition race between the “Bluenose” crew and the local
Coast Guard we’ll be raising awareness, distributing joy and selling
t-shirts. Feel free to stop by and support the cause.
September 13th is the International races in Canada and plans are now
being made for that trip. Anyone interested can contact me for further
information.
There are still tickets available for the fundraising sail aboard the
schooner “Thomas E. Lannon” on September 21st. This is going to be a
great afternoon sail and we strongly recommend all members try and make
it. The money raised for this event will make the first payment on the
new boats.
September 27th we’ll be participating in the “Trails and Sails” event
with the Heritage Center, bringing people out in dories and showing them
how to row.
Volunteers are needed, and greatly appreciated, for all above events.
I’d love to see some of you pitch in hour or two and help support dory
rowing!
Peace, out.
—
James A. Tarantino, President
International Dory Race Committee
978-281-5822 james.tarantino@noaa.gov
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Long days down the wharf this time of year. Working every day is starting to take a toll on me mentally but I try not to think about all the time away from my girls too much or it tends to really eat at me. You gotta grind it out this time of year and I know that. At least I took a half a second to snap this pretty shot before heading home.
Yesterday morning I went over with Doug Cook to survey the site for our tree project. Doug is calling Dig Safe and checking with the City engineers as far as any easements. Doug has some exciting plans which we will put up for everyone to see here.
Good Eggs- Doug Cook is a good egg. Not only is he going to offer his Landscaping expertise consulting for the type of trees and land preparation, but he is also going to donate a tree for the GMG Tree Project! I couldn’t be more excited and happy to have Doug aboard the GMG team.
Check out Doug’s website which is in the process of being updated www.ladesign.biz
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Good Morning Gloucester 