My View of Life on the Dock
This is a pretty tough shot to get with such low light and from the distance it was taken. I’, pretty happy with it. To see it full size click the picture and select “all sizes”
Gloucester At Dawn- The Plan B 4:40AM 8/5/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here’s a block on The Midnight Sun. For the Beautiful Industry Series Slide Show Click This Text
Beautiful Industry- Block, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Beautiful Industry- Switch, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Think these controls have seen much use?
Beautiful Industry- Throttle Controls Aboard The Allison Carol, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Matt and his son have been working in the yard on a pile of traps for a while now. New traps can cost close to $80 so when you can buy decent used traps you can save a good amount of money. The used traps that lobstermen usually buy need to be “gone through”. Gone through meaning- the knitted heads may need repairing, the wooden slats on the bottom of the trap may need to be replaced to protect the bottom of the trap from wear, the escape vents might need new hog rings to keep them secure or the trap might just need to be brushed off from dead growth.
Pictured below is hake. Hake is commonly used in fish cakes. It’s a good white meat fish.
Back when we used to handle fish an old time fisherman- Leo the Flounder would hang out in the mornings and tell old waterfront stories. He spent a good part of the last ten years of his life down the dock, sipping coffee and keeping us informed on what was happening around town. He was a character a real waterfront character and I miss him.
Anyway, about twice a year Leo would make a big pan of (poopieties) – not the right spelling but sounds exactly the way it is spelled. Poopieties were hake fish cakes fried up in the good Italian olive oil.
When we had a big trip of hake we would give Leo a couple of steakers (large hake) and he would fry up a batch. The thing I loved about them and I’ll never forget was the amount of garlic he would use. He’d try to kill you with the garlic. We would normally be working so hard that we would pound down a ridiculous number of poopieties and then as the day went on and you were sweating you could smell it coming out your pores.
Good times- I miss you Flounder.
Gloucester Seafood Display Auction-Hake, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Beautiful Industry Hydro- Slave Pot Hauler,, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Lobster trap rope, flag markers, gaffs, bait bags, buoys.
Rose’s Marine Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here’s some grey sole at the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction.
Gloucester Seafood Display Auction- Grey Sole, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Louie Linquata Explains The Process -click to view movie
To see pictures of the computerized Fish Auction Bidding Room click this text
The morning before last one of our pumps that keep salt water flowing to the lobster tanks shit the bed. It’s great to have places like Rose’s Marine where you know you can go and get what you need in marine industrial applications.
Rose’s Marine Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Picked up some lobster bait this morning for our boats. Our guys prefer herring to pogies as pogies get extremely greasy and make working on the deck of the boats dangerous. Once that pogie juice gets on the deck it’s literally as if you were walking around on a pond covered with axle grease.
Beautiful Industry- Salted Pogies, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The camera that brought you 95% of the pictures and 99% of the videos that I’ve posted over the past year and a half is going to a good home.
FOB (friend of the blog) and all around great egg Brenda Malloy will be putting it to good use.
I’m feeling sort of sad about it because it has taken so many pictures of beautiful things, people, food and Gloucester scenes and has been incredibly reliable but an opportunity to make the blog better has come up and along with it a chance to get a big boy camera for not a whole lot of dough.
I resisted buying a good dslr like good buddy Jay of Cape Ann Images has because I figured that down the dock it would simply get demolished but since the Mrs already has a zoom lens and regular lens for her nikon d40 I figured that if I sold my precious Sony H3 (the camera used in most of my pics over the past year and a half and combined that with the money I got from a few pictures that sold at The Cormorant Shop recently, I could justify the expenditure.
So my faithful camera that has taken so many pictures and been with me all along is going bye-bye as soon as the new one shows up in the mail.
For anyone that wants a reliable camera that has a solid zoom, is pocketable and takes decent video I highly recommend this camera- Sony DSC H3. It was a joy to work with.
The pictures taken with this camera have been featured in countless publications, visitors guides, television programs such as NECN, WBZ, and WCVB, magazines, the Lobster Institute educational materials, ad campaigns for many local businesses, Flower Box Competitions,promotions for many local charities, art scenes, fundraisers, and more.
For an example of what pictures were taken with my baby click here, here, here, here, and here.
Sigh
Salmon Racks Aboard The Jupiter II, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
SailGloucester09- The American Eagle 4:40AM 7/6/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 