Two Lovely Ladies
Lady Marie and Lady Margaret, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Lady Marie and Lady Margaret
Category: lobster
Pamela and Patricia’s Funky Purple Traps
Pamela and Patricia, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Shawn Cromwell, skipper of the Pamela and Patricia heads out to set his funky new purple traps.
It’s a first for me (I’ve never seen purple traps)
He ought to put little disco balls inside so the lobsters can have an eighties party once they trap up.
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Lobstermen Truck Series- Sandollar Tony Gross
Lobstermen Truck Series- Sandollar Tony Gross, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Lobstermen Truck Series- Sandollar Tony Gross
Lobstermen Truck Series- Sandollar Tony Gross, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This is the first photo in a series of Lobstermen Truck pics I’ll be doing. A whole lot can be told by the way a guy organizes the back of his pickup truck.
I chose to start out the series with Tony Gross’ truck. Tony is the skipper of the Sandollar and his entire operation is run clean as a whistle. He pulls up in his truck and has two totes with no holes which we dump his bait into so that the fish juice doesn’t run out of the boxes and into the back of his truck. You could literally eat off the bed of his truck.
Also note that the bed of his pickup is devoid of clutter. The only thing you will find back there are his scrubbed clean tools of the trade. A class act that Tony Gross is.
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Valerie Ann Heads Out
Valerie Ann Heads Out, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Flat Ass Calm
Flat Ass Calm, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Flat ass calm day out and most boats are tied up.
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The Golden Banana
The Golden Banana, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Harrison Golden’s New Boat
Harrison Golden’s New Boat, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Harrison Golden bought this beautiful lobsterboat. The boat’s name intrigued me so I googled it and came up with this wikipedia page on Moe Szyslak
You gotta wonder about a guy that names his boat after a bartender on The Simpsons, LOL.
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Experimental Plastic Hauling Plates
Experimantal Plastic Hauling Plates, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This is a picture of one half of a set of new experimental plastic hauling plates. They come from a government grant that paid to develop them.
The thinking behind the new experimental plastic hauling plates is that they will have less friction on the rope to make the rope last longer. The rope that the lobstermen use is a by-product of oil and it’s cost has gone way up with everything else. By using the new plates they hope they will get a longer life out of the rope and reduce costs.
Right now only a couple of these have been distributed to my lobstermen to see if there are any design flaws. They potentially could be too slippery and not haul the gear properly. They might have too much grip, they might be too flexible.
What I know is that lobstermen are creatures of habit and it will have to work very similarly to what they currently use or the idea will be an exercise in futility, but if they do work and can save them money it would be worthwhile.
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Traditional Metal Hauling Plates
Traditional Metal Hauling Plates, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This is what all the lobster boats use today. The rope goes in between those two discs and the pressure as it goes into the groove created between the discs holds it in place. That is the way the traps get hauled up from the bottom of the ocean floor.
The thinking behind the new experimental hauling plates is that they will have less friction on the rope to make the rope last longer. The rope that the lobstermen use is a by-product of oil and it’s cost has gone way up with everything else. By using the new plates they hope they will get a longer life out of the rope and reduce costs.
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Experimental Plastic Hauling Plates
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Woodman’s Rebuilding Outdoor Lobster Cooker
Woodman’s Rebuilding Outdoor Lobster Cooker, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Woodman’s Rebuilding Outdoor Lobster Cooker
Woodman’s Rebuilding Outdoor Lobster Cooker, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Yikes
Johnny Sits on the Rail at Rose’s
Johnny Sits on the Rail at Rose’s, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Dog and I Rudder, Wheel and Zincs
Dog and I Rudder, Wheel and Zincs, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Stern Of The Stanley Thomas
Stern Of The Stanley Thomas, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Stanley Thomas Rudder and Shaft
Stanley Thomas Rudder and Shaft, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Can anyone explain this?
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Trevor Corson digs the blog.
Trevor Corson, author of “The Secret Lives of Lobsters.” Wrote about The goodmorninggloucesterblog on his site yesterday. here’s the link to his entry-
Trevor Corson’s blog entry here
Good Morning Gloucester 