Category: Fishermen Profiles

Video- Meet The Gloucester Fishermen From Mark Burnett’s Expedition Impossible

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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!

Mackerel Trap Fishing With The Santapaola Men Aboard The Amanda and Andy Slide Show From Kara Ring

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Mackerel Fish Trap Off Kettle Island With The Santapaola Clan

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Photos From Kara Ring-

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Look for the slide show tomorrow.  I’ve never seen the process before- fascinating stuff!

Micah Dean, Brianmoc- Striper Assassins and Micah Demonstartes How He Makes His Lures

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Brianmoc writes about Micah Dean’s Lures-

Once more a very nice fish on this lure. Not the biggest hit but this was one of 3 (32,36 and this) Run Micah down and buy one of his lures! I only own this one as its a test lure but will pick off one or two now. Odds he gets this lure back Zero! All lures are hand-turned and made on Cape Ann. First light has them or you can got his web site. This was test lures but now i think i will get two. http://www.micahdean.com/lures.htm

click this text for Micah’s website

Micah Dean Woodturning Lures, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Micah Dean Hand Turned Mackerel Plugs
Micah Dean Hand Turned Mackerel Plugs
Micah Dean Woodturned lures
Micah Dean Woodturned lures

Click below to see a video with Micah making one of his lures in his workshop-

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For Adam Bolonsky- The Fence And What It’s Used For On A Lobster Boat- The Degelyse

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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!

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SEAN!

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Gloucester Negatives With A Prize From The Infamous Fred Buck and David Cox

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Fred Buck Writes-

joey –
i’ve been working with dave cox of main street antiques on his personal collection of gloucester negatives.  among those are three sets of photos of gloucester fishing boats taken in the 1940s:  immaculate conception, launch from montgomery boat yard on ferry st in 1946.; st. christopher, launch from reed brothers in boothbay harbor maine in 1944; and the christening of another boat at fort wharf (?) around the same time.
we need some help from gmg. HELP!  if anyone recognizes the folks on deck or the boat or the location, let us know.  prize is an 8×10 glossy of your favorite shot.
infamous fred buck

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Brianmoc Video To Get All You Striper Fishermen Horny

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There are some big fish around as Brian shows in this video from May 22-

Brian writes-

42 inch 25+ pound fish Catch & Release Striped bass top water Fishing MA Crane Beach Ipswich Essex 5/22/11 not the first fish of the year but the biggest year. Started my spring fishing with some nice striped bass riding the outgoing tide. This big striper Came up and gulped the jumping minnow down on the first cast. What made this fun was I the rod. I used a 3/8oz – 1oz Temple fork salmon pole 8’6″ or TFO rod. This was not as fat as your avg late season fish but at 25p it was fun fight on light tackle and even bent the vmc hooks. What you are experiencing is a very good tool that if handled right a competent can land very large fish and make fishing for smaller fish that more fun!

Joe Testaverde Forwards Us Links to some Gloucester Maps In The 1800s

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Joe writes-

I recently was checkout some sites and saw to my eyes ,that Gloucester had places I didn’t know!  Impossible said I for in my 60 years I have hopped,skipped and walked over most of this water front, It was my play ground as a boy.. But there it was in B&W or color I mean, I think? but CANAL STREET ,DIKE ST., LOCUST ST., IVY CT., WHARF ST AND RAILROAD AVE  Off  DUNCAN ST,   AND ROGERS STREET running only  from  PORTER ST.AND WATER STREET!  Where am I ?

"THE SURFSIDE" Off Western Harbor, Homes on the SOUTHERN SIDE OF Western Ave.,The Gloucester, Essex & Beverly St. railways Co line and Barn and The Gloucester Street Railway on trestles running through the parking lot of Good Harbor Beach today;  WHERE the hell am I ?

Community Heritage Maps Antique Maps of Cape Ann Massachusetts 1889 including Rockport, Manchester, Magnolia , Gloucester

Published by Geo. W. Stadly & Company

30 Columbus Avenue, Boston , Mass.

Prints of Original Map

Print of Original Map 13 x 19 =$39, 18 X 26 =$59, 22 x 32 =$79

Gallery Collection Prints

Gallery Collection 13 x 19 =$50, 18 X 26 =$100, 22 x 32 =$125

Front Page-Cape Ann 1899

Listing of towns and villages

Table of Contents

Listing of towns and villages

Original Antique Map of Cape Ann Massachusetts-index map 1

Original Antique Index Map Gloucester,Massachusetts , Map 2

Eastern Point, ten Pond Island, Rocky Neck, Five Pond Island, Fort Point, Western Harbor

Gloucester Massachusetts- Map 3

Pavilion Beach, Western Ave, Ocean House, Forbes School, The Surfside

Original Antique Map of Gloucester, Massachusetts Map 4

Western Ave, Mansfield Street, Washington Street, Hovey School, Govenor’s Hill, The Cut Bridge

Original Antique Map of Gloucester, Massachusetts Map 5

Independent Christian Church, Old Universalist Cemetery, Collins School, Babson School, St. Ann Roman Catholic Church, Huntress Tufts’ Home, Gloucester High School, Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester Lyceum

Old Antique Original Antique Map of Gloucester Massachusetts Map 6

Pearce Street, Wharf Street Wharf, Vincent Cove, Sawyer School, Friend Street, Our Lady of the Good Voyage, Mt. Vernon School, Brown Wharf, Central Wharf,

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Massachusetts Map 7

Gloucester Massachusetts Inner Harbor,Webster Pond, Sawyer School, Holdreth School, Haskell Street

Old Antique Original Map of East Gloucester Massachusetts Map 8

Wonsons Cove, Oakes Cove, Rock Neck, Perry Landing, Parsons Wharf, Wonson’s Wharf, Smiths Cove

Old Antique Original Map of Glocester Massachusetts Map 9

Cape Ann Shoe Factory, Ye Oldest Burial Place, Pest Hospital, Gloucester Athletic Association, Oak Grove Cemetery, Meeting House Green

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Map 10

Gloucester Net & Twine Company, Old Rockport Road

Old Antique Original Map of East Gloucester Map 11

Webster Pond, Good Harbor, Bass Rocks, Long Beach,Atlantic Road

Old Antique Original Map of East Gloucester Map 12

Braces Cove, H.C. Rouse, Eastren Point, Light House Cove, South East Harbor, Long Beach, Niles or Fresh Pond, Isaac Patch, Rocky Neck

Old Antique Original Map of West Gloucester Map 13

Stage Head, Western Harbor, Stage Fort Park, Squam River, Ravenwood Park

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Ward 8 Map 14

Normans Woe Cove, Mussel Point, Old House Cove, Fresh Water Cove, Master-Moore Land Company

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Ward 8 Map 15

Magnolia Habor, Magnolia Point, Cedar Point, Normans Woe Heights, Strawberry Hill Cove, Crescend Beach, Ocean Side Hotel

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Ward 8 Map 16

Stanwood Point, West Gloucester Station, Dikes Meadow Reservoir, Little River. Rusts Island

$175

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Ward 8 Map 17

French & Sylvester, Haskell Pond,

Old Antique Original Map of Riverdale Gloucester Ward 8 Map 18

Addison Gilbert Hospital, Edward Babson Estate, Mill River,Dogtown,

Old Antique Original Map of Annisquam Gloucester Ward 8 Map 19

Annisquam , Lobster Cove, Annisquam Harbor, Daimon Cove, Annisquam Light, Annisquam Yacht Club, Annisquam Universalist Church, Goose Cove

Old Antique Original Map of Rockport Massachusetts Ward 7 Map 20

Plum Cove, Rockport Granite Company, K.P. Sargent , Hodgkins Cove, Davis’ Neck, Rockport Granite Company, Rockport Quarry

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester Massachusetts – Lanesville, Ward 7 Map 21

Folly Cove, Lanesville Granite Company, Folly Point, Christian Bedders, Lane School, Wood bury, Lanes Cove ,Lanesville Universalist Church

Old Antique Original Map of Gloucester – Riverdale Massachusetts Ward 6 Map 22

Goose Cove, Mill River, Squam River, Wheeler School, Wheeler Point

Old Antique Original Map of Rockport Massachusetts Ward 8 Map 23

Jones River, Pearces Island, Squam River, Farm Creek, Two Penny Loaf, Farm Point, Bald Rocks, Barn Rocks, Willoughby Park, Essex River , Coffins Beach, Wingaersheek Beach, Sleep Hollow Lake

Old Antique Original Map of Rockport Massachusetts Map 24

Map of Rockport ,Pigeon Cove, Halibut Point, Angling Point, Motif Number 1 , Pebble Cove, Colburn Point, Andrews Point, Rockport Breakwater

Old Antique Original Map of Rockport Massachusetts Map 25

Map of Rockport Massachusetts, Bear Skin Neck, Old Harbor, Central Wharf, Broadway School, Annisquam Mills, Motif Number 1, Peg Legg, Sandy Bay , Doyles Cove, Lighthouse Bottling

Old Antique Original Map of Rockport Massachusetts Map 26

Map of Rockport Massachusetts , Sandy Bay, New Harbor, Central Wharf, Norwoods Head, Bear Skin Neck

Old Antique Original Map of Rockport Massachusetts – Lands End – Stonehaven Map 27

Map of Rockport Massachusetts , Lamorna Cove, Loblolly Cove, Emerson Point, Whale Cove,Gap Head, Straitsmouith Point, Gully Point, Penzannce Road, South Cove, North Cove, Lands End Company

Old Antique Original Map of Manchester Massachusetts- Map 28

Map of Manchester Massachusetts, Singing Beach, Masconomo House, Manchester Harbor, Central Pond, Manchester Station, Masconomo Stables

Old Antique Original Map of Manchester Massachusetts Map 29

Map of Manchester Massachusetts Manchester Harbor, Nortons Neck, Tucks Point, Fosters Cove, Glass Head, Bartols Point, Fort Head, Chubbs Poijnt, Newport Hill, Norton Mountain, Cheevers Point, Black Beach Cove, West Manchester Station,

Old Antique Original Map of Manchester Massachusetts – Lands End – Stonehaven Map 30

Map of Manchester Massachusetts , Manchester Harbor, Norton Neck, Glass Head, Ram Islands, Gales Oint, Masconomo Beach, Singing Beach, Lobster Cove, Image Hill,Ballurach Cove, Pickards Point, Ram Islands, Musical Beach

Old Antique Original Map of Magnolia Massachuse Map 31

Map of Manchester – Mognolia Massachusetts , Kettle Cover, Gray Beach, Crow Island, Graves Island, Eagle Head, Black Beach, Essex County Club, Coolidge Point, Goldsmith Point, Richard H. Dana, White Beach

Fred Buck Finds Another Picture Of Our Grandfather- Captain Joe Ciaramitaro- Thanks Fred!

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From the Archives at The Cape Ann Museum.  ask and you shall receive-

If you have any Gloucester topics from the past which you would like to find out about, go to the Cape Ann Museum and talk to the friendly folks down in the archives.  They are happy to help you discover things that you may not know had existed.

Our Grandfather Captain Joe, the man our dock is named after is second from the rightAF1940-01-001a

Joe Sans In The Expedition Impossible Trailer

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As you guys know if you follow GMG that The Sanfilippo Boys are on Mark Burnett’s Expedition Impossible.  Here’s a trailer in which Joe Sans Is Featured swimming at 1 minute 48 seconds in. Click the picture to view the video!

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More about the upcoming nationally televised show here

To see the other pictures of our hometown heros check out my previous posts here

One Page From Abby Ytzen’s Gloucester Fishing 101 Handbook

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Click the picture for just one page from Abby’s Gloucester Fishing 101 book which she produced for seARTS Partner With an Artist Program.  there will be many panels on eth walls here at our Dock- Captain Joe and Sons 95 East Main St Saturday from 10-2PM

Click on the picture below to see it full sized and learn some interesting facts for yourself.  I for one was astounded at the breakdown of how many of each different type of commercial fishing boats there were.  42% of the fleet are lobster boats, I had no idea, but this is just one of the factoids that Abby has broken down.  I think if you click on the picture you will get a sense of how easy she made it all to understand even though there is a ton of data in her book and in her exhibit, ANYONE could easily understand it.

-and this is all stuff that anyone that really takes pride in living in Gloucester or loves the fishing industry should know about.

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So be sure to stop on by the dock Saturday 10-2PM

Here’s a map-

Map To Captain Joe and Sons 95 East Main St Gloucester MA 01930

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Posted in Art, Beautiful Industry, gloucester, Things to do | Tagged 101, Abby Ytzen, Fishing, gloucester, Handbook,

Gloucester’s Joe, Gus and Nino Sanfilippo on ABC’s Expedition Impossible Website!

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Click here to go to the site

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From The Site-

Ready to represent the storied Northeast fishing community of Gloucester, Gus (the captain), Nino (the engineer), and Joe (the deckhand) are three old-school Italian fishermen with small town values and big time hearts. Bonded together by blood (Gus and Nino are brothers, Joe is their cousin), they also work side-by-side as crewmates aboard the Captain Dominic. They believe their experience working together under pressure and routinely risking their lives while out at sea gives them an inherent "toughness" that will help them win. We’ll see if that’s the case.

Gloucester Fisherman Getting Ready For A Trip Photo on Shorpy

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forwarded by Jon Cunningham-

Networking: 1905

Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "Fisherman getting ready for a trip." 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Gloucester, Massachusetts Oral History: Leo and Rosalie Favaloro

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The Favaloros, residents of the Fort neighborhood, describe life in Gloucester between 1930 and 1978

Leo talks about fishing out of Gloucester during the 1930’s while Rosalie describes parts of her girlhood. They touch briefly on the loss of the fishing boat Captain Cosmo, which sank that September in a storm.

Credit: Sawyer Free Library/Linda Brayton/David Masters/Adam Bolonsky
Copyright: Public Domain/Adam Bolonsky

Click the picture to listen-

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BREAKING NEWS!!! WE CAN FINALLY OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE IT! THE SANFILIPPO BOYS ARE ON MARK BURNETT’S EXPEDITION IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!

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This One Has Been Killing Me to Keep Under My Hat!!!!

Cast-

Gus Sanfilippo, 48, Gloucester, MA, fisherman
Nino Sanfilippo, 43, Gloucester, MA, fisherman
Joe Sanfilippo, 44, Gloucester, MA, fisherman

From Lynette Rice On Inside TV

ABC announces cast for ‘Expedition Impossible’ (Yep, its another amazing race coming to you in June!)

EXPEDITION-IMPOSSIBLE

Now that Mark Burnett is stealing some thunder away from American Idol with The Voice, is he now hoping to suck a little steam out of The Amazing Race?

You be the judge: Burnett is the man behind a new summer reality show for ABC dubbedExpedition Impossible, which features 13 teams of three players who will travel across deserts, mountains and rivers in the “exotic, fabled Kingdom of Morocco.” Fun? Each week a new stage of the expedition will be revealed to the competitors, who must find a way to work together to complete the trip. After 10 legs of competition, one team will cross the finish line.  Winners each receive $50,000, a Ford Explorer (nice product placement) and the privilege of never having to be called members of the Fab 3, Mom’s Army, or Grandpa’s Warriors ever again.

You think we’re kidding? Check out the monikers given to the 13 teams, which start the expedition on Tuesday, June 21. (My money is on the fishermen. Not so much for the gypsies):

Here’s Joe Sanfilippo and dory partner Marc Duval Getting In Some Early Season Dory Race Training

and after a hard fought Dory Race Win-

You may recognize Joe Sanfilippo from his interviews down at the dock, he is one of our lobstermen.  If not here he is in the RunGloucester Race-

Here’s Nino Sanfilippo Taking Home The 1998 Greasy Pole Flag-

Here is Joe Sanfilippo’s Chevy pick up truck.

Joe carries the normal stuff that skiff lobstermen carry in the back of their pick up trucks- fuel jugs, water jugs, covered fish totes to put bait in, some random buoys.

What you might also notice in the back of Joe’s truck are the dory oars and bench set up that he uses to train for the upcoming International Dory races. Joe is an avid rower and always a contender to represent Gloucester with his partner in the International Dory Races between Gloucester and Lunenburg.

He lobsters out of a 22 foot Eastern skiff after work and on weekends with his son Ryan.

Click here for all the posts from GMG with the Sanfilippos

Here’s a photo of Joe Rowing in the International Dory Races From GMG contributor Mike Lindberg-

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It’s That Time Of Year Again- Trap Setting Time!

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Here our buddies Matt and Mark Ring aboard the Mighty Stanley Thomas prepare a lobster pot trawl by tying the groundline to each trap in a ten trap trawl.  I could tell you more but Mark Mr Secrets would not be happy.

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The Margaret D Painted By Bill Hubbard

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Good Morning Joey,
Joey,
Attached is my recent painting of another Dahlmer boat.  The Margaret D. was
launched in Dunkirk, NY and brought to Gloucester in 1910.  She was owned by my
Grandfather, Capt. John A. Dahlmer and christened by my mother, then 9yr.old Margaret
Dahlmer.  The Dahlmers lived on Rocky Neck then and later moved to Hovey Stree.
The Margaret D fished mostly as a gillnetter and later as a western-rigged
dragger.  My painting shows her returning from gillnetting, rounding Eastern
Point and about to pass Dog Bar Breakwater into the harbor.
She went ashore in fog on Salt Island in 1914 and was a total loss.  Grandfather
never began a trip on Good Friday or Friday 13th.
Bill Hubbard
www.indianriverartistsstudio.com
Marine Art & Therese’s Sketches

Margaret D-1912-2

Treasured Audio-Gloucester History Cigar Joe Talks About Fishing In the Early Part of The Twentieth Century Part VI

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Good Morning Gloucester  Exclusive

Cigar Joe Frontiero born in 1898 these tapes were recorded in 1981 when he was 83 years old.

Click here or the arrow below to listen to the audio

The family of Cigar Joe Frontiero brings Good Morning Gloucester these treasured recordings of Fishing out of Gloucester MA in the early part of the century  in the second of the multi-part collection of recordings.  I’m happy that the family entrusted GMG with these priceless recordings and am proud to be able to have the platform in which we can archive and share with the community.

To listen to the previous Cigar Joe Recordings Click Here

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