Follow Our Boy Paul Morrison on his journey around Cape Ann aboard kayak via his cool Rubber duck tracker (works great on smartphones too)
For The Paul Morrison rubber duck tracker Click Here
Send in any photos from the race and I’ll post them to the live blog.
Look for Mr Rubber Duck and Paul he’ll be wearing a bright orange shirt-
Paul writes-
Park in front of Gloucester High School at 7AM tomorrow and go out back and check out these boats! High Tech SUP paddleboards, tandem canoes, sliding multi rowing boats, fixed multirowing boats, Banks Dory, Workboats, fixed and sliding doubles and singles, outrigger canoes single and double, sea kayaks single and double, fast sea kayaks, high performance kayaks, even Hawaii Five Oh outriggers with everyone yelling hut! hut! hut! 225 boats all told.
Or hang out somewhere on the shoreline or on Pavillion beach after 11AM and watch these boats race to the greasy pole finish line. Whatever you do, do not stay inside on this beautiful weekend clicking on the Rubber Duck Tracker! OK, maybe once, then get in a boat and get out there.
Cape Ann Rowing Club (website) puts on a great circumnavigation of Cape Ann Race every year. This is the 27th running.
7:17AM Update:
Looks like Paul and RD have made their way to the Race Start out behind GHS-
7:40Update:
Looks like he’s in starting position just off Dun Fugin.
8:09AM Update:
Aaaaand he’s off!
8:56 Update:
Up The Annisquam they go-
9:42 Update:
Working their way toward the tip if the Cape-
10:33 Update”
Heading Southeast Off Rockport-
12:32 Update-
Approaching Brace Cove
1:57 Update:
He Made It!
Good Morning Gloucester 
thank you so much for the one stop shopping links GMG; what a great day for this!
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“Approaching Brace Cove” sounds so bucolic. But if you know Cape Ann then I know I went past Good Harbor Beach a long time ago and I want to just head in and walk over but no I am in the fucking Blackburn Challenge and it takes for fucking ever to get to Brace Cove but where does that get you because now the four foot swells are turning into a washing machine and where is that goddamn lighthouse then when you see the lighthouse someone built this fucking Dogbar breakwater which seems like it is around 2,200 fucking feet long then turn and done right but no fucking way Gloucester has this harbor that is two fucking miles long before you get to that Birdseye building which is just a fucking mirage.
But really, it was fun. Just go back and reread that but instead of “fucking, replace with “amazing” or “groovy”.
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Great post. What were the results. Neighbor was in race and anxious to see results.
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