My View of Life on the Dock
You see how the traps are all set along the outside rail of the boat? Joe is going to set out some gear today. This is a ten pot trawl and all those traps are connected by a ground line with buoys at each end to mark where the traps are set in the ocean so when he goes back out he can find them by looking for his specially painted buoys.
Joe Mondello Readies The Boat To Go Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Andy would like to know what the readers think of the “love brush”. Should he keep it or shave it?
Andy Kippen- Gloucester Lobsterman, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Downtown, a kid was wearing these Chuck Taylors. I wonder if the creators way back when ever imagined that they would be stylized this way? Very Ed Hardy.
Not Your Father’s Chuck Taylor’s, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
While passing out Downtown Block Party flyers yesterday I happened to stop by Seasons On Main Street. What I didn’t realize was some of the different lines that she carries there. One major brand that you all might recognize is North Face.
Seasons On Main offers two pretty valuable Where The Locals Go coupon book coupons. One is for 20% off any single full priced item. Another coupon is for 25% off any three full priced items. That’s pretty significant savings for buying a $10 Where The Locals Go Coupon book that is filled with hundreds of other money saving coupons.
North Face Apparel At Seasons On Main St, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
New railings and glass for the new section of Cruiseport Gloucester
Cruiseport Construction Update 8/2/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Just got this in from David Cutler through Jim Dowd.
Tomorrow, Sunday August 10 is the Rockport Acoustic Music Festival.
The 2008 Rockport Acoustic Music Festival will be held on Sunday, August 10, from 12:00 noon until 6:00 pm, in Millbrook Meadow, Rockport, Massachusetts.
The Rockport Acoustic Music Festival, held every summer in historic Rockport, MA, features local musicians and performers from across the country.
This year’s line-up includes Generation Gap, Deb Hardy, Will Diehl, The Fury TBA, Brian O’Connor, Christine Baze & Greg Dann, Brad Byrd and Marley, Bingo Fridays, Bob Kramer Band, Greta Bro Band, The Starlings, Livin’ on Luck, and The Sunny Fishcakes’ Music Revue.
Plan a vacation around the event, come for the day, bring a picnic, or just pop in while passing through Rockport or the Cape Ann area.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the event.”
You could also check out their website RockportFestival.com by clicking this text
Here is another one of Jackie Ganim-DeFalco’s one of a kind sea glass pieces.
Jackie Ganim-DeFalco’s Cape Ann Designs Sea Glass Accssories At The Sidewalk Bazaar, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Dave stopped by the dock to pick up his check on his way back from a charter with some bluefish he had caught in his lobster tank.
I have had a couple people tell me that when you book the Gloucester to PTown Ferry through the Boston Harbor Cruises website when you get to the check out it gives you half off.
Here is the website – Boston Harbor Cruises Gloucester To PTown Ferry
You could save some serious dough. Don’t buy them until you are sure it gives you the discount but see for yourself. I have it on good authority.
I just checked and these are the quoted prices from their website which is way less than if you purchase at the boat-
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Cameron’s 4:53AM 8/8/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
With the Downtown Gloucester Block Party approved by the city council, we will have outdoor dining and drinking on Main Street the night of August 16th. There will be live music and dancing and we are working on a spectacular slide show.
If I were you I’d call The Frankin, Passports, La Trattoria, Dogbar, Jalepenos, Valentino’s or The Elliott and request outdoor reservations for that night. If they tell you they are not accepting reservations for outdoors that night then politely say thanks anyway and call the next place on the list. I think it’s going to be spectacular and a lot of fun and hopefully the blueprint for having this type of event become a regular part of the Downtown scene.
Here are the telephone numbers-
The Franklin-978.283.7888
Passports-978.281.3680
La Trattoria- 978.281.0790
Dogbar- 978.281.6565
Valentino’s- 978.283.6186
Elliott’s at The Blackburn 978.282.1919
Get dialing
What Up Homie?, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here is the view of Pavillion Beach from the parking lot at the Chamber of Commerce looking toward Stacey Boulevard.
Pavillion Beach Leading To Stacey Boulevard, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here is the Pavillion Beach, totally underutilized compared to Good Harbor and Wingersheek Beach. The white building to the left in the photo is the site for the proposed Marriott Hotel.
Pavillion Beach In Front of Proposed Marriott Site, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here is Stevie mending the net after “making damage”. “Making damage” is a term used when the net goes over some hard bottom on the oceans floor and it tears the net.
This is how they sometimes fill the herring totes at Cape Sea Foods on the State Fish Pier. They line them up in a long row and use a rotator on the forks of the fork truck to tip the 1500lb vats of herring on it’s side.
The herring then spills out of the vat and as each tote gets filled the fork truck operator continues in reverse filling the next empty ones in the row until they are all filled.
Then they stack empty totes on top of the ones they just filled with herring until they get four totes high all they way down the line. Once they have all the totes filled and stacked four high they slide the forks of the fork truck under the stacks and lift them onto pallets where they will hold 12 totes per pallet (3 stacks of 4) and shrink wrap them so they won’t slide off during transportation.
Filling Herring Totes, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Check out some more of Candy Marshall’s work. Her prices are what I consider cheap for the unique beautiful pieces she’s made.
Candy Marshall’s MillRiver Beadworks at The Sidewalk Bazaar, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
I was talking to Jack Palazola from Palazola’s Sporting Goods on Main Street in beautiful Downtown Gloucester and he told me how they can totally customize any shirt you would like with the use of a three part system they have developed. If you look in the photo below you will see three aqua arrows pointing at one t-shirt.
They have separate imprints for “Gloucester” on the top, then any sport logo in the middle and then “Fishermen” down below. They also have the imprints in maroon and white.
So say you wanted a Gloucester football t-shirt in a size medium on a grey colored shirt. They don’t have to stock them in every size, shape and configuration. They can make you exactly what you want just by switching out the color and size of the shirt and exactly the names and sports logo you want in the middle.
Genius!
Palazola’s Totally Customizes Any Shirt Or Sweatshirt, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Well it happened again last night.
Once again I am totally humbled by the photography skills of yet another Gloucester photographer. This time it was by a guy named Steve who runs Shooting My Universe. Steve has what I consider a must visit site with a fantastic layout for displaying photographs due to the large amount of screen space alotted to displaying pictures.
He does great work, go check it out and rediscover what a hack I am at all of this, LOL!
I don’t consider myself a real photographer, more of an observer who trys to get his point across with pictures. There are many times when I’ll put an out of focus picture up because it is part of a story I’m trying to relate to you, my reader. I’m not so vain to think I have anywhere near the photography skills of the guys that have taken classes or have been at it for years. I just click away and occasionally get lucky.
The blogging world is funny, when you start out you really would like to get your stuff out to as many people as possible so you send comments to other blogs with links back to your site and hopefully some of the other site’s readers will cross pollinate and come visit what you have going on. The blog owner who gets the comments has the option of approving them so they get posted or determining that they are too spammy and not approve them so they never see the light of day. My feeling is that if a site is worthy, and I think it will benefit the people that come check in here daily then I have no problem passing the link through and actually promoting the person’s work.
Anyway, go checkout Steve’s site, it’s great.
Good Morning Gloucester 