Category: Beautiful Industry

Waiting…ever waiting

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

DSC01160The wet tracks reveal the movements of the lobster cart. Back and forth to the scale.

Uhmmmm….Yeah, I’m digging it.

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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View from Captain Joe and Sons 5:00PM 12/20/11

Taken with the new camera, the Sony NEX-5N

 

Captain Joe and Sons Forktruck Study In Black and White

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

click the photo for the slide show

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Some may scratch their heads and wonder why anyone would want to take pictures of a greasy, rusty old forktruck.  Others may find some beauty in the images.

All in the eye of the beholder.

It was fun messing around focusing on different parts of the machine and using the light streaming through the front door of the dock to create shadows and highlight what I wanted highlighted.

Taken with the new Sony NEX-5N

First Images From My New Camera

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Fired up the new Sony NEX-5N and took these snaps within 5 minutes of my first shots.

Pretty excited about the possibilities

as always click the photos for the larger versions

Ominous

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Beautiful Industry- The Winch

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Workspace

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Who Else?

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Rick

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Nicole

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Get Down To The Lobster Trap Tree For Tonight’s Tree Lighting Tonight at 5PM!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sista Felicia Bringing Some Bling To The Lobster Trap Tree

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Should fetch some serious dough at the Buoy Auction- The Bedazzled and The Lady Gaga GMG Buoy.  Yikes!

How Do You Move A Thousand Pound Scallop Dredge? Very Carefully

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Pete Mondello sold his old scallop dredge which he long ago sold his permits for to some guys from New Bedford.  This meant we needed to get it out of the yard and up over the rail of a pick up truck into it’s bed safely without it coming crashing down and  smashing the sides of the truck to bits.

We did it without incident.  Video at the bottom.

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Here’s an awesome video of a scallop dredge deployed over the side of a boat and working in the ocean from –

Greasy Pole Work Begins

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Pearson Pilings are being used.  The pearson pilings use a proprietary formula which makes their pilings stronger than steel even though it’s much lighter.

here is their website

Check out  their website

PEARSON FIBERGLASS COMPOSITE PILINGS are today’s preferred building material for waterfront foundations, docks, piers and bridges. Our composite pilings are stronger than wood, steel or concrete pilings, and because they will not rust, rot or crumble, they will last virtually forever. Containing no chemical preservatives that leach into the water, our sustainable fiberglass composite pilings are environmentally friendly and are the choice of “green” developers of clean marinas and waterfront properties.

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Kathy Chapman took this picture of the pilings loaded on the barge last week-

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www.kathychapman.com

Empire Fish- 40’s or 50’s From Fred Buck

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Infamous One Shares This Slideshow of Empire Fish Cutting Redfish.  Anyone know any of the people in the photos?

Thanks Fred- it’s nice to share these with the community rather than sit in a box somewhere never seeing the light of day.

Your contributions here have been outstanding!

Mending Nets Aboard The Captain Novello

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sam Novello and crew repair the net after a return from Stellwagen Bank.

Photographs by Kathy Chapman

http://www.kathychapman.com

Maritime Gloucester Webcam, Yeah We Got That!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

www.gloucesterwebcam.com just killing it!

The latest addition, the working docks of The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center now named Maritime Gloucester.   This one’s a beauty!

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Now with 22 live Cape Ann webcams and more to come!

Still on tap- The Schooner Lannon webcam, and Schooner Adventure as well as a repositioning of the Cape Pond Ice cam where they fill the holds of the fishing fleet with ice on Gloucester Harbor, also a Dun Fudgin webcam from Cape Ann Marina and Mile Marker 1 webcam.

Have you checked it out yet?

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Special thanks To Tim Blakeley from www.gloucesterbytes who has been installing the webcams at a reduced service rate because he believes in the project.

Waxing Gibbous Moon rose 2:15 PM today

Posted on by paultmorrison

2:15 PM this afternoon a waxing gibbous moon should have popped up just to the left of the Rockport breakwater in the photo. I got to chatting with some Brit geocachers at the end of the Pigeon Cove breakwater I was standing on and complained that my moon had not shown up. Maybe I screwed up the time change? Nope. Twenty minutes later it arrived out of barely visible haze. It’s directly even with the bow of the boat and about a boat length from the horizon. The color is all weird because I had to adjust the crap out of the saturation and temperature in iPhoto to even get it to show up.

I told the Brits when they were getting warmer on the geocache and they too found what they were looking for. I’ll try again closer to a full moon so the sun is not bleaching the moon out. Rubber Duck stayed home to finish off Fred Bodin’s pickled herring. I’m trying out a handfull of EJ’s Canadian Bacon leftover from the deviled eggs mixed with Beth’s chocolate covered pomegranate seeds. Wowiekaflowie that’s a tasty combo. Huge bennies throwing the Mug-Up today. Clean house and all the leftovers are mine mine mine.