Category: Beautiful Industry
Video- Meet The Gloucester Fishermen From Mark Burnett’s Expedition Impossible
For all of our Insider Expedition Impossible Coverage Click Here For Other Pictures and Videos
There is one thing I can guarantee you. Just from knowing how much heart these guys have that you will never hear them utter the words “I quit” or “I can’t”. You know how on these types of shows you see some dude who inevitably backs down from some challenge because they can’t take the heat? I’d bet my life you will not see that from our boys from G-Town.
The show will premiere June 23 at 9PM on ABC. Don’t forget to set your DVR to record the entire season!
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Salting Herring Video
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Eddie Salting The Herring
Bare handed. Covered with stinging wet salt and herring guts in the warm summer heat.
It’s a tough job but hey, Eddie’s a tough guy.
you know the drill- click the pics for larger versions
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Gloucester Doors Series- Alma McLaughlin Gallery
You can tell a lot about a community by the doors on its buildings. The door on Alma McLaughlin
McLaughlin’s Gallery is one that holds many parallels with the city we love, Gloucester.
It’s both worn and beautiful with many layers of paint much like the layers of character that is the fabric of our city. This is no pre-molded factory produced door which adorn the bedroom communities grotesque subdivisions. This is a door that has seen it all and still beams bright and beautiful.
Welcome.
For the rest of the Gloucester Door Series click here
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Mackerel Trap Fishing With The Santapaola Men Aboard The Amanda and Andy Slide Show From Kara Ring
New Twin Lights Beverage T Shirts Are In At Alexandra’s Bread Co
I don’t remember what flavor this one represented. Was it Birch Beer?
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Stuck in the Mud
Stuck in the Mud
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The Gloucester Fleet
The Gloucester Fleet
“Theresa & Allyson”
Dragger
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For Adam Bolonsky- The Fence And What It’s Used For On A Lobster Boat- The Degelyse
Many lobster boats have been installing these”fences” along the side of the boat where that is opposite the hauling station.
The fence has several purposes. Real estate on a lobster boat is valuable, especially if the lobsterman is a real fisherman and not just a “pot hauler”. A pot hauler is a lobsterman who simply sets his traps out in the same spots and doesn’t take the time to figure out what exactly the lobsters are doing and more importantly where they will show up next. So the “pot hauler” sets his traps and goes back to the same spots over and over and doesn’t move the lobster traps around to try to be where the lobsters will show up next to be caught.
Lugging 100 traps from one area to another and resetting them and adjusting the lengths of the trawl lines for different fathoms is a lot of work and some “pot haulers” would just assume keep to a simple routine even though it doesn’t yield the best results. To be fair, to move lots of traps from one area to a whole different area forces a lobsterman to either have a very large boat in which they can stack a ton of traps on and get lots of traps moved at one time or if they have smaller boats they have to make multiple trips because you just can’t put that many traps aboard due to a shortage of space.
This is where a fence can be beneficial in two ways. All of the buoys and high-flyers and even barrels can be lashed on to the fence to save deck space for work.
Secondly when stacking traps high on the deck of the boat to get as many on as possible for moving them to a different area the fence helps to secure the traps. So if the lobsterman feels that his catch has dropped off and he can catch more lobsters by moving to a different area he can move a bunch at one time and not worry about losing them overboard in windy or rough conditions.
TUFFY!
SEAN!
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Mark Teiwes Shares His Photos From Abby’s Gloucester Fishing Exhibit Here at Captain Joe and Sons
We partnered with Mark two years ago for his Faces of The Working Waterfront seARTS Partner with an Artist show here at our dock. It was nice to see him and his lovely wife Becky come out to show some love to Abby and us for her exhibit.
You can see Mark’s amazing Faces of The Working Waterfront Slideshow here
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Original Gortons Fish Foods Pin From The 1930’s
These are not reproduced , they are original pins from Gortons of Gloucester back in the 1930s. Arley Pett sells them for $20 plus $1 shipping. The patina from pin to pin will vary due to age.
email Arley if you are interested in buying one apett92117@aol.com
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we have a winner..
The Infamous Fred Buck Writes-
joe giacalone nailed this right on the money - the Sacred Heart, built in Maine by Frank Militello and John Aiello winter of 1944-5. joe says he can name everyone in the photos (including himself as a little kid in one of them). infamous f.b. will be traveling to addison st. in a limo to deliver the grand prize to joe and take some serious notes on names and faces to add to the files at the historical. thanks to david cox for never throwing anything away!
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“Art, Rocks!” Come and Get It
Yes, We Are Up To Something.
Yes, There Is A Rock.
Yes, If You Are Still Reading This After 30 Seconds You Are Wasting Valuable Time!
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Nina Samoiloff -Catch
Our Sarah kelley wrote-
Catch features the work of artist Nina Samoiloff, as she collects and collates the pieces she finds on the beaches of Rockport (documented on her blog, also called Catch) before creating sculptures and photographs of her finds. But the artist’s beach finds aren’t the usual gallery suspects, the carefully edited and crafted work involving natural driftwood, shells, or even beach glass. Catch features items of a different sort, all of them man-made — the artist even uses cut lumber, washed up on the beach, instead of naturally-occurring driftwood in her pieces. The show is a sobering and impressive collaboration between man and nature, truly an expression of the time we live in, for better or for worse. A time in which we make permanent stuff to use for a very temporary moment — like water bottles, for instance — before throwing this same stuff away, much of which ends up in the eternal ocean before rolling back onto the shore — and back into our lives.
My sculpture and my obsessive morning ritual of picking up of plastic on the beach (which I document and post on my blog Catch) are symbiotic, without the one the other would not exist. Both are discarded products of a consumer society, and both are a challenge to me as to how to present these items artfully to the viewer. The beach lumber sculptures are a combination of my industrial design education and my desire to recycle. Each piece of lumber speaks to me, it’s shape, texture, color or the nails protruding from it have the potential to become part of a bigger finished sculpture.
– Nina Samoiloff
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GLOUCESTER AT WORK
Geno at the DORY SHOP.
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Bill Hubbard Asks About His Grandfather’s Boat The Superior
Bill Hubbard Writes-
Joey,
I’m trying to track down an important bit of history about my Grandfather’s Boat. Capt. John A. Dahlmer’s fishing boat Superior was taken by the US Navy early in WW-II. We have heard that she was used to supply weather stations along the Greenland and Newfoundland coasts with fuel and food. She was returned to the family in 1944. As a child, I remember seeing a paper certificate issued by the US Navy thanking him for the use of his boat in the war effort. He was also paid $1 for each of the 4 years she was on naval duty.
My question is, what was the name of the navy command that operated Superior and other New England vessels during the war years? I’m sure some of your readers had similar experiences with other boats at that time and, maybe someone can tell me. Maybe even someone has a picture of her at that time. A picture of Superior sporting her new, first in the fleet, whaleback bow in 1935 is attached.
Thanks,
Bill Hubbard
bill.hubbard@fineartamerica.com
Bill this would be a great question that maybe our FOB Fred Buck at The Cape Ann Museum could answer-
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Dropping Moorings Photo From Bill O’Connor
Hey Joe,
These guys were steaming around the outer harbor a few weeks ago dropping moorings. They were pretty busy all afternoon, and were hitting spots between Rocky Neck and the breakwater. I’ve never seen this rig before, have you?
Thanks,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Pics From Abby Ytzen’s Gloucester Fishing Exhibit At Captain Joe and Sons
The show which was made possible by a seARTS grant and lots of hard work by Abby was a smashing success. Even though there was an incredible amount of things happening around town there were a ton of people who came to check it out.
Abby is really going places. The talent she has for boiling down incredible amounts of data into such an engaging and easy to understand handbook is nothing short of remarkable. She did it with her Biomes Project and she’s done it yet again with the Gloucester Fishing Handbook. People gobbled up all the copies of the twenty or so books she had printed and there was some exciting talk of possibilities for publishing it.
Rachel Carver-Brown did a fantastic job with the refreshments. It was just a great great Gloucester Day!
You can check out Abby’s website here for updates as to her next step with the book.
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“Art, Rocks!” May 21, 2011 7:30pm
Ok! It’s past 6pm and the Rapture didn’t come. Maybe next time.
Here’s the location in photos. It should be easy enough for most.
The Rock was left at: 7:29pm and 59 seconds.
Goodnite and Goodluck!
- The Scene
Good Morning Gloucester 