Hi Joey,
We had an exciting and a bit tense time at GMR on Tuesday. The Phyllis A, who had been up on the rails for 3 months, was relaunched, quickly moved over to the next bay (guys on ropes moving her) and hauled out on the travel lift. She had not been re-caulked before the relaunch as we anticipate taking many of the planks off pretty quickly. We expected a bit of leakage, and were not disappointed. Doug Parsons figured she took on about 4000 gallons before she got positioned on the travel lift. Doug had 3 pumps running to try to keep up. Joe Maletti lifted her up slowly to let the water drain to reduce her weight before the final haul out. We all crossed our fingers hoping she would stay together on the lift. She made it through with flying colors. Richie Arnold, the Phyllis A’s last captain was on hand for the excitement.
The Phyllis A was moved over behind the Gloucester Marine Railway office building on Wednesday. She’ll be there as we complete the next phases of reconstruction. Saturday, Doug and I will be aboard photographing the fo’c’sle so we have photo documentation of her layout before de-construction. We plan to use those photos later to aid in accurate re-constsruction. We encourage everyone to come by and visit the Phyllis A as she has her face-lift. Please visit the Phyllis A website at www.phyllis-a.org if you are interested in learning more about the Phyllis A , upcoming events, or volunteering in her restoration. We also have 2 FaceBook pages, the Phyllis A Marine Association and Friends of the Phyllis A Marine Association. I’ll be doing regular photo posting on FaceBook as the restoration continues.
The Phyllis A Marine Association is also excited to welcome Beth Welin as our Education Director. Beth’s high energy and creative ideaswill be a wonderful fit for our mission to promote the history and importance gillnetting in Gloucester.
Mary Barker
Good Morning Gloucester 
as a former Travel Lift operator Id be Nervous and Prepared as they on Rocky Neck !
Good Job, Mates !
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Thanks Skip. We actually had 4 pumps going and loosing all the time. After we got her in the straps, we added a 5th pump to speed up the pump out. A little out and a little up till it was over. Now for the big rebuild.
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