Category: lobster

Mondello Boys Slide Show Featuring Joe, Pete and Geno

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Entering tags on each photo I upload to flickr is sometimes a painstaking process but when you think about the sheer number of photos taken (say 100,000 or more) there would be absolutely no way to ever locate a particular photo without going through all 100,000 photos unless you have each one tagged with an identifying name.

It is through this tagging system that I can locate and isolate certain photos. It may be painstaking but the archive of photos from Gloucester and of my family that I can access with a few clicks of the keyboard are pretty remarkable.

Click the Picture for the Mondello Boys Gloucester Waterfront Slideshow

Click the picture for the Mondello Boys Slide Show

Sean and Nate Sit Atop The Last Load Of Lobster Gear Of The Season

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When the last load of gear is loaded on the dock happy times ensue. Video at 8AM

Nate Sits Atop The Last Load Of Lobster Gear Of The Season, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Tuffy and Nate Prepare To Offload a Pile Of Lobster Gear

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Here the boys are getting ready to offload a pile of lobster traps.  The cold water temperature haas made the lobstering activity slow down to a crawl and the time will be better spent fixing broken gear and making repairs than going out to catch very few lobsters this time  of year.  When the last load of traps comes in it is a big relief for lobstermen.  It’s the end of another season and hopefully they’ve made enough to carry them through the winter.

Tuffy and Nate Prepare To Offload a Pile Of Lobster Gear, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Mylee Grace Nicastro at 2 months old with Lobster

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Proud Papa Jeremiah Nicastro sends in this pic-

Congrats Jeremiah!

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Mylee Grace Nicastro at 2 months old with Lobster, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Tully IV and The Dog and I At Captain Joe’s

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Tully IV and The Dog and I At Captain Joe’s, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Joey’s Lobster Slide Show

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Click the pic for the slide show of all the pictures I’ve taken and tagged with the term lobster-

click the pic for the lobster slide show

Mary Rhinelander’s Limited Edition Cape Ann Blue Willow Print Video

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Wary Meyers Lobsters Playing Before The Storm Print

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I saw this picture in the link  to Wary Meyers site on the Casco Bay Boaters Blog but once on the Wary Meyers site I could never find this actual full sized print.

Paulie Frontiero showed me the light yesterday- thanks Paulie.

Chickity Check The Wary Meyers Print Shop which has a ton of  beautiful nautical prints by clicking the pic below.

Captain Pete Mondello Shovels Off The Allison Carol

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The boat had a little over a foot of snow aboard after the snow storm.  There’s a whole set of precautions that commercial fishermen have to  take to keep their boats going through the extreme cold temperatures.  Frozen coolant lines, frozen lobster hoses, snow engines freezing up.

It’s always best to have a block heater which keeps the engine warm and the fuel from gelling up.  We plug our truck in and it starts up (usually) pretty easily but without that block heater forgettabout it!

Video at 6pm

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Sean Burn’s Lobsterboat The Four Sisters Prepares To Offload

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It was so cold that the plug which drains his lobster tank was frozen solid.  He had to take a layer of lobsters out of the tank and then dip a five gallon bucket in to take out some water and then take more lobsters out followed by bailing out more water til the tank was empty.  The extreme cold makes

Sean Burn’s Lobsterboat The Four Sisters Prepares To Offload, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Sean Burn’s Lobsterboat The Four Sisters Prepares To Offload, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Coast Guard Releases Video Of Michael and Kristen Rescue

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If you use Twitter you would get United States Coast Guard New England Updates.  Last night they tweeted this video-

The USCG New Englands Twitter name is-

USCGNewEngland

USCG Pic Of The Cutter Escanaba Tilted Way Over as It Approaches The Michael and Kristen

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Thanks to Universal Hub for the link-

Here is The USCG website report-

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BOSTON — The Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba is continuing to tow the Gloucester-based lobster boat that was disabled Wednesday with five people aboard more than 200 miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass.

Ten to 15-foot seas and 38 mph winds are keeping the Escanaba’s towing speed at about 4 mph.

The crew of the Escanaba is working with the First District command center staff in Boston to determine the safest location to tow the Michael and Kristen to.

The master of the 77-foot lobster boat called for help at about 3:30 p.m., Wednesday when the boat’s engines wouldn’t start. The Rachel Leah, another fishing vessel in the area, answered the calls for help and began towing the Michael and Kristen. The Escanaba met both vessels around 9:30 p.m., Wednesday and stayed with them through the night.

Thursday morning the Rachel Leah’s towline parted, so the Escanaba took over and the Rachel Leah departed.

The original press release can be found here: https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/778/430007/

Gloucester Offshore Lobster Boat The Michael and Kristen Stranded 200 Miles Out

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Here’s A picture of The Michael and Kristen which is the Gloucester offshore lobster boat which lost power 200 miles out.

Here the Michael and Kristen prepares to offload it’s catch. It’s an offshore lobster boat as opposed to the vast majority of our fleet which consists of inshore lobstermen.

Click here for pages upon pages of  lobstering related posts from our dock including mutated lobster, blue lobster and lobstermen posts on Good Morning Gloucester

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Offshore Lobster Boat The Michael And Kristen Prepares Top Offload, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Click the below link for the story from Richard Gaines at the Gloucester Daily Times-

Stranded 200 miles out at sea Coast Guard has lobster boat, five-man crew in tow

By Richard Gaines
Staff Writer
The 77-foot, Gloucester-based lobster boat, Michael & Kristen, which became disabled and was drifting in high seas about 200 miles southeast of Nantucket on Wednesday, was being towed home by a Coast Guard cutter last night, through wind gusts of some 40 mph.

There were five people aboard the boat, which is owned by the corporation, Fair Winds Inc., according to Coast Guard spokeswoman Lauren Jorgenson. The corporation is headed by Charlie Raymond of Beverly, and the ship captained by Ron Davis of Rochester, N.H.

The Boys Aboard The Degelyse Take Tiger’s Sloppy Seconds

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You find love in the unlikeliest of places.

The Boys On The Degelyse Take Tiger’s Sloppy Seconds, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Sean and Nate Take Tiger's Sloppy Seconds