Len Burgess writes-
Monday evening, trying out the new 32′ six-oared Cornish pilot gig 7/9/12.
–Len Burgess
Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.
Quarry Swimming From Kathy Slifer
Hi Joey , This has been swimming weather for sure ! Nothing like a dip in the quarry , its an aesthetic moment , as is so much here on Cape Ann .
Also wanted you to know the Ardelle Sail for City Hall Reconstruction is a sell out ! Thanks for your help .
Kathy Slifer
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2012 Community Blackburn Challenge Live Blog and Paul Morrison GPS Live Tracking Map
Most Importantly before we get into the meat of the Live blog I’ll provide a link to Paul Morrison’s Live GPS Location Tracker Here (The GPS Tracker will be turned on at 8AM to save battery but you can still check it out now. This is a real time tracker so if you see him coming up to where you are on Cape Ann run out to the water’s edge and give him a holler. I’ll randomly draw a name from people that submit photos of Paul on the Race Course before the end of the day for a Real Deal GMG T Shirt $20 value. His GPS Tracker even works on smartphones so there’s no excuses. Bookmark that cool ass link and track his freaky Rubber Duck Toting Around Ass down on your smartphone.
Send in your pictures from the start middle or finish and I’ll add them to this post which I’ll keep stickied at the top of the blog and regular scheduled posts will update below this one. I’ll also give regular updates from our Paul Morrison’s GPS Tracking Map as to his whereabouts around the Cape.
A note to all Blackburn Challenger Competitors and their families-
Swing down the dock after the race to get a free Good Morning Gloucester Sticker and have your picture taken for these pages Representing!
The Blackburn Challenge – July 14th, 2012
Click to View Current BBC 2012 Registration by Group
New – Click to View Current BBC 2012 Registration by Class
From The Blackburn Challenge Website:
Time Limit Update – 6 Hour limit to complete course. Chase Boats and Timing will finish after 6 hours. Racers are paddling at their own risk after 6 hours on the course. Please plan appropriately if you believe you can not complete in 6 hours.
The Blackburn Challenge is a 20+ mile open water circumnavigation of Cape Ann. Participants row or paddle small boats in the open ocean waters around Cape Ann, and conditions can vary dramatically throughout the day. Occasionally the water can be very rough, with strong winds and high waves.
Paul Morrison writes this pre-race entry-
Saturday: Give a Hoot and a Holler to the Blackburners
Good Luck Paul and All the Other Brave Contestants in this year’s 2012 Blackburn Challenge from the team here at GMG!
Google Map of path around Cape Ann different than Paul Morrison’s GPS Live Race Position Tracking Map Found Here
Here’s Paul Morrison from last year (you can see the Rubber Duck Tracker mounted to the bow of his Kayak)-
Paul Frontiero Photo
Here is our 2011 Blackburn Challenge Coverage
Below this line begins our Live Race Day Coverage-
Last Update from the Live Tracker Was A Test At The High School Launching Area at 6:38AM- Looks Good For The GPS Tracker Paul! –
Update 7:39AM: Paul Morrison Rubber Ducky GPS Live Tracker Is Live
Click here for live ,tracking map so you can stalk him like the stalker freak that you are
Donna Ardizzoni posts live shot of Paul Morrison’s 2012 Blackburn Challenge Rubber Duck GPS Tracker-
Paul Morrison and Rubber Duck Tracker Pre Race From Ed Collard-
Update 8:11AM:
He is In The Water Just Past The Train Bridge-
Update 8:24 Rubber Ducky and Paul are off- averaging between 4 and 5 mph
Our Paul going under the A. Piatt Bridge photo from Donna Ardizzoni-
8:37AM Update:
Well past the A Piatt Andrew Bridge and approaching the first entrance to Jones Creek. Speed 5mph Uploading video from the starting area now
8:52AM Update:
At The Mouth Of The Annisquam River 4mph
9:25 Update:
Coming Up On Lane’s Cove
Mary Page submits-
Blackburn challenge from Rust Island
Pictures I took this morning of the challenge looking across the Annisquam at the frog rocks
10:16 Update:
Just off Pigeon Cove and maintaining that 4mph pace.
11:23 Update:
Passing Good Harbor Beach
Click here for live GPS Rubber Duck Tracking
Update 12:21:
Approaching Eastern Point Lighthouse and Dog Bar Breakwater
12:43 Update: 3mph
Heading For Home Stretch and Pavillion Beach! C’mon Paul Finish Strong!!!!
Click here for live GPS Rubber Duck Tracking
Blackburn triumph!
from Crescent52
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Video 2012 Blackburn Challenge Timelapse from Our Mike Lindberg
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Community Photos 7/14/12
Little Rosie enjoys the beach from Lisa Jordan
Little Rosie loves lighthouse beach!
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Fresh Breakfast Sandwiches Await At Last Stop Variety
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Community Stuff 7/14/12
Five Guys Burgers and Fries locations in Saugus, Gloucester and Swampscott are happy to announce we will be donating 500 burgers to Reid’s Ride. Five Guys welcomes an opportunity to support the efforts of the ride participants, and considers the donation a small contribution toward the monumental goal of beating cancer. Five Guys supports the efforts of Reid Sacco Memorial Cancer Research Fund and considers it a high priority to support the community.
Five Guys Burgers and Fries is a family owned burger restaurant chain, specializing in handmade Cheeseburgers, Hebrew National Hotdogs and Hand Cut French Fries. Five Guys has been named the “Best Burger in America” every year Zagats has held the annual competition, and Zagats recently awarded Five Guys the “Best Concept” award for 2011. Five Guys was also named “Best Fast Food in America” by Travel and Leisure Magazine in 2012.
Five Guys was founded by Jerry Murrell as a single burger joint in 1986. Five Guys refers to Jerry and his 4 sons at the time. Since 1986 they have added one more guy, but never strayed from their absolute dedication to never-frozen, handmade food and direct-from-producer meat and produce. Five Guys considers itself a part of the community, and prides itself on being willing to stray from the menu if there’s something a customer doesn’t see but would like to eat. Popular off menu (secret) menu items are the “Patty Melt” and the BLT.
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20×24 Canvas Print Of The Burnham House At Dawn Just Came In
I normally order 16×20 but they offered a 20×24 for only $25 bucks more so I ordered it up. It’s a pretty substantial sized piece. The colors are ridiculous, the exact reflection of the house in the still water in front of the Burnham House is wild. As a matter of fact The Bean asked me to hold it upside down to see it from that perspective..
So if someone wants it, it’s $150 and ready for hanging. No framing necessary (the reason everything I do now is canvas framed).
Email me at goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com. It’s available for immediate pick up.
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Relax
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Video- When the catch becomes the bait….
Forwarded by Bill O’Connor
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Do You Care About The Olympics?
You know the last time I gave a shit about the Olympics?
USA v Russia 1980.
I was laid up in bed with a broken leg that I suffered when I fell off the t-bar on my way up the bunny slope to my first ever skiing lesson, my first time ever on skis.
That Olympics was great and I would argue the pinnacle of American pride that I can remember during my lifetime.
But now I don’t know a single person that cares a bit about the Olympics. No one. Well no-one except the athletes themselves and family members I suppose.
The amount of money poured into advertising for the Olympic games and the stadiums built are staggering. I don’t know if it’s worthwhile for these companies or not to spend this much dough on advertising. You would think their marketing teams would know what they are doing at these huge companies but then again think about all the companies that overpay for naming rights to stadiums when they are flush with cash and we only find out a couple years later they go bankrupt. I suppose blowing tons of money on stupid campaigns doesn’t help the bottom line but whatever, it’s not my dough.
As a devout and completely biased homer for all teams that represent our geographic region and USA in the Olympics this isn’t a slight to the athletes, I wish them the best. I just don’t know when the whole allure of the Olympics fell apart for me and I wonder if others feel the same.
Vote for how much you enjoy the Olympics below-
Matty Olson, owner of Surfside Subs just stopped by to pick up his lobsters to make his outstanding lobster rolls and I asked him when was teh last time he cared about the Olympics. his response- “Never” I asked what about the Miracle on Ice?’
His reply he was too young to remember that because he’s 35.
I rest my case.
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Kathy Chapman is interviewed in the July issue of abstraks magazine
Kathy Chapman is interviewed in the July issue of abstraks magazine with reference to living and working in Gloucester.
http://abstraks.com/?page_id=257
Good Harbor Beach surfer portraits.
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012
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The Picton Castle On The Gloucester Adventure Webcam and From The Opposite View Out Of Kathy Chapman’s Window
Click On The www.gloucesterwebcam.com website under attractions and you will find the Schooner Adventure webcam where the Picton Castle is currently tied up.
Kathy Chapman writes-
Shot this picture of the Picton Castle out my window this morning. Marty Luster posted details yesterday as she entered the harbor..
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/picton-castle-in-gloucester/
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012
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HarborWalk Comes to the West End of Main Street Gloucester MA
Fred Bodin writes-
Sean Marler from Mystic Scenic Studios levels the top of a Story Moment marker on Main Street in front of the Sargent Murray Gllman House. Sean estimates there are about eight more markers left to install signage on.
The narrative sign with smart phone QR code is then epoxied and bolted to the granite marker. The post card shows Main Street and Gray’s Hardware on the left, which I wrote about on GMG in September 2011. All I need now is a smart phone!
Fredrik D. Bodin, Bodin Historic Photo
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Community Stuff 7/13/12
Small sailboat rental?
Joe, a few years ago you helped me find Patty Page of GHS sailing. We went sailing with a GHS young man for an hour or so and in exchange, made a donation to the program.
I called her and they don’t do that anymore. I tried the YMCA at Patty’s suggestion, no good. I tried Brown’s in Gloucester and the Sandy Bay club in Rockport- all no good. No luck with internet searches either.
Any Idea where I could rent a small sailboat for a few hours between Aug 2 and 7? Thanks for help.
Bill Rothschild
July 14 – September 30: water, water: A multimedia installation by Sarah Hollis Perry & Rachel Perry Welty
water, water is the first collaborative museum show for mother–daughter artists Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty. In addition to maintaining separate practices, Perry and Welty have been working collaboratively since they overlapped as students at the School of the MFA, Boston in 2000. They have two permanent sculptural installations at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Perry and Welty organized and filmed their video performance "Drawing a Line with the Tide" in July 2011 using eighty volunteers from the seaside village of Annisquam in Gloucester, Massachusetts where they both live. Moving to avoid the inevitable, the performers demonstrate a futile attempt to control nature with its stubborn adherence to the circling of time.
Included in the installation are three short films in which the artists explore aspects of identity and the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship of dependence, independence, and interdependence.
Gallery Talk with Sarah Hollis Perry & Rachel Perry Welty
July 21 and August 1 at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
$10 members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Reservations are required.
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More Photos From Inside and Out At The New Gloucester McDonalds From Ron Gilson
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Joanne Aiello Represents! at Kings Gate Community Port Charlotte, FL
Hi Joey,
I’m attaching a picture of the GMG logo at Kings Gate community in Port Charlotte, FL taken this winter.
GMG is our link to home while away. Thanks.
Joanne Aiello
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Gloucester Gig Rowers get a new Gig! From Rick Isaacs
Hi Joey,
Gloucester Gig Rowers held our christening and launching party on Sunday evening, 8 Jul for our new 32′ Cornish Pilot Gig, custom-built for us by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Champlain Longboats School http://www.lcmm.org/education/champlain_longboats.htm . Here are a few pictures of our party party to celebrate the arrival of our new boat, and christen her. She can be seen moored at the Harriet Webster Pier at Gloucester Maritime, on Harbor Loop.
The boat’s name is the "Annie B", and one picture shows Annie Banks, her namesake and one of the chief founders of Gloucester Gig Rowers, breaking the traditional bottle of champaign over her bow.
Sorry this took a while – I needed to secure the club’s approval for all of these mug shots to be published before sending this. We would be grateful for any coverage which you could provide us!
All best,
Rick Isaacs
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Shari Barr Quote of The Week From Greg Bover
From the deck of SV Linnet in Casco Bay, heading home to Gloucester.
"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
Shari Barr (no dates or Wikipedia article available) See www.Sharibarr.com
A self described country girl from southern Iowa, Barr is a mother and wife who writes children’s literature from a Christian perspective. Her books include those of the Camp Club Girls series.
Greg Bover
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Piston Castle Gets Thomas E Lannon Escort Into GTown
Hi Joey, The Picton Castle received a Schooner Escort by the Thomas E. Lannon into the Harbor today! Also Keep your eyes peeled for the Tall Ship HMS Bounty as she sails up the coast for her arrival in Newburyport sometime tomorrow morning. To track the Bounty, go to this page and click ‘Update’ to get the latest info! As I’m writing this the Bounty is just clearing the Cape Cod Canal! Enjoy! ~Bill O’Connor North Shore Kid
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