My View of Life on the Dock
This morning I expected it to be freezing cold but it was beautiful. I decided to take some pics down at Beacon Marine before work. The temps are supposed to plummet this afternoon so bundle up!
Gloucester At Dawn- Beacon Marine, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Gloucester At Dawn- Beacon Marine Fork Truck, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Cold Dark Raw- Gonna Be A Long Day Fishin’
The Degelyse Heads Out Lobstering, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
And it’s only January! —-Sharon
Capsized Clam Shell Boat Providenza, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
See the ice making horizontal icicles from the wind on the way back from fishing. I sure hope all that ice was made when they were done on deck and sipping on some hot coffee in the pilot house for the ride home.
Gloucester At Dawn- Dragger Elizabeth Covered In Ice, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Just got an email from Mark Teiwes. Ernie Morin and Mark are both entered in The 2008 Boston Art Awards.
Mark Entered his Faces Of The Working Waterfront which was shot here in Gloucester and still on display at the Dock. Ernie has “Sight Lines” entered. Give them your votes if you dig the work. They both have my votes that’s for sure.
This from Greg Cook-
“Below is the ballot for the 2008 Boston Art Awards, a contest organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research to honor the best art made in New England (excepting Connecticut) and exhibits organized here in 2008. And you are invited to vote. You!
The ballot is long. Crazy long. More than 60 people contributed some 190 nominations for the 2008 Boston Art Awards. Yes! The process was designed to be open to all, democratic and broadly representative of our community. The resulting ballot – which includes nearly all the nominations – is somewhat messy, despite my best sincere efforts to give it clarity. Ah, democracy!
(http://gregcookland.com/journal/2009/01/2008-boston-art-awards-ballot.html)
Winners will be chosen by (1) local active art journalists and (2) anyone else who wants to vote – and will be announced in terms of these two separate categories of voters.
How to vote:
Voting is open to all. So feel free to pass along this message. Voting will be by e-mail. Vote for just one nominee in each category. Be clear. List each category and then your vote in each category. I suggest copying the ballot into an e-mail, and deleting all but the stuff you’re voting for. It’s okay to vote for yourself – everyone’s doing it. You don’t have to vote in every category. Of course, you may only vote for stuff you have seen. And you may only submit one completed ballot. Anyone breaking these rules will be banished. Email your votes to bostonartawards@gmail.com. Put “Vote” in the subject line.
The deadline for the receipt of votes is 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Late votes will be ignored.
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research will tally the votes. Nominees with the most votes in each category will win. The 2008 Boston Art Awards Ball is being planned by the kind folks at Big Red & Shiny (thank you) – details will be announced shortly, but it’s looking like it will be in Boston on Feb. 2, and free and open to all. Mark your calendars, because I hope to see you there. Winners will be announced by early February. Stay tuned.
Please contact me with any questions, suggestions, complaints, corrections, dire warnings. And please vote.
Greg Cook
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
http://www.gregcookland.com/journal
Dorchester, Massachusetts.”
So yesterday we got back from South Beach and my In Laws picked us up in the nice warm car. We went in to our warm house and spent the afternoon and night playing with the little ones.
This morning at 4:45 AM I took a swing through town and saw The Elizabeth, a dragger all covered in ice and thought it would make a good set of pics for the blog.
I got out of the truck with the camera and walked down the ramp at Rose’s Marine and started snapping. Well wouldn’t you know that in all my excitement of having a nice subject to photograph within minutes I couldn’t feel my fingers. Yuck! Now I remember why winter sucks so bad.
Gloucester At Dawn- Dragger Elizabeth Covered In Ice, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
On the rocks by the pier in Magnolia
Beautiful Industry- Essex Shipbuilding Museum Truck Tire, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Beautiful Industry- Essex Shipbuilding Museum Truck Tire, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Beautiful Industry- Bollard, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Before The Gloucester Seafood Display Auction came along and we were handling fish we would handle tons of monkfish. The boats would sometimes sell them whole and sometimes cut the tails. When cutting off the heads they lose over half the weight of the fish but the price would go up a ton. Some people say that monkfish tastes like lobster. I think that’s a bunch of bull but hey they gotta sell this ugly sucker somehow. they have it listed as goosefish on the tag at the aquarium but as long as I’ve been in the fish business I’ve never hearda single person in the industry ever refer to it as a goosefish, even the government reports we had to fill out listed them as monkfish. Here’s the wikipedia page for monkfish
Monkfish At The New England Aquarium, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Early Morning Gloucester, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Gears On The Winch
Beautiful Industry- Essex Shipbuilding Museum Gears, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 