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Hi everyone,

The SailBot 2013 Race is now over!

This year was marked by the kind of weather you can only find in New England; everything from warm sunny days to squalls with 30 knot gusts. The teams all rose to the challenge and put on a great contest. Our special thanks to Olin College, the City of Gloucester, Maritime Gloucester and Ocean Alliance for their help and support.

This year we had 16 teams show up and 16 boats get into the water. Of those 16, 10 were novice teams. Friends were made, ideas were swapped and everyone went home happy and ready for more. Congratulations to all of our competitors!

2-Meter Contestants:

University of British Columbia
US Naval Academy
Aberystwyth
Olin College
Memorial University Newfoundland
Iowa State

1-Meter Contestants:

Albermarle HS
Newburyport HS
Gloucester HS
Community Boating Inc
Endicott
Tufts
Gloucester HS
UoGuelph
Swampscott HS
El Dorado HS

Results are as follows:

Overall 2 Meter:
1st Place UBC
2nd Place USNA
3rd Place Aberystwyth University

Overall 1 Meter
1st Place Albermarle MESA
2nd Place Newburyport HS
3rd Place Gloucester HS

Navigation Accuracy 2 Meter: University of British Columbia

Navigation Accuracy 1 Meter: Albermarle MESA

Presentation 2 Meter: University of British Columbia

Presentation 1 Meter: Albermarle MESA

Long Distance 2 Meter: University of British Columbia

Long Distance 1 Meter: Albermarle MESA

Stationkeeping 2 Meter: TIE
University of British Columbia
Aberystwyth University

Stationkeeping 1 Meter: Albermarle Mesa

Fleet Race 2 Meter: University of British Columbia

Fleet Race 1 Meter: TIE
Community Boating, Inc.
Endicott College
Tufts University

See you in 2014!

-Drew

Prof. Andrew Bennett
Director, SCOPE Program
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
1000 Olin Way, RM MH263
Needham, MA 02492
http://www.olin.edu/

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Hi Joey,

Here is the North Coast Angler weekly fishing report :

http://www.northcoastangler.com/

Fishing Report: 6-14-2013

The striper action overall continues very good from Cape Ann to the Merrimack River. Stripers ranging in size from “dinks” of 8 inches to keeper sized fish pushing 40+ inches.

The Candy House at Little River continues to provide local anglers with fair action using small topwaters, metals and soft plastics. Most of the stripers are of the dink variety, but a few up to 25 inches are being taken. If you plan to fish there this weekend, bring along the bug spray as the “no-seeums” are also biting and especially fierce when the wind is light. The oceanside action is also picking up with catches being reported from the boat and shore anglers alike. Brian O’C reported taking (and releasing) a 40+ inch striper at mid-week in an undisclosed shore location along the Gloucester shoreline. He also reported consistent action still happening in the Essex River backwaters. The local water temps are still running cold so I expect the stripers to continue providing some fairly good fishing this weekend in the backwaters and out front.

For entire report click here

Skip

North Coast Angler www.northcoastangler.com

Skip Montello Photos www.skipmontellophotos.com

phone: 508-395-5871 (C)

From Marcy Plante

Hi Joey,

I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely LOVE your blog!  I truly hope the people of Gloucester know what a gem they have in you.  You are a real ambassador for the city.  I was only in Gloucester for one afternoon last year and mostly because of your blog and the contributors, wish I could move there!!  If all works out, I will be lucky enough to spend a week there at the end of the summer. I do have one question, not sure it has anything to do with you, do you know why so many of the webcams aren’t on line.  Yes I get my morning dose first of Good Morning Gloucester and then check out what cameras are up and running before I leave for work.  

Anyway, thanks for all the enjoyment.  (You did have me rolling in laughter over the midget pickles!)

Liz

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Hi Liz thanks so much for the kind comments.  It’s what let’s our contributors know that heir work is appreciated and truth be told if the comments dried up our contributors would be less motivated to produce the best content they could produce.

In regards to the webcams, some of the owners of the webcams simply haven’t kept up with keeping them on and I just don’t have the time to contact each one and walk them through the steps to get them going.  A great FOB Tim Blakely generously did the installs for next to nothing in labor but we lost Tim this past winter to cancer and if the people who own the cameras would see the benefit to having them up and running and embedded on their own websites I think it would prove to be very beneficial to them.  I look at the stats for the Gloucester Webcam site and it gets great traffic every single day.

So thanks again for your kind comments

Made my day!

Chime in if you came today because of GMG. What did you order and how did you like it?

UPDATE:  Within minutes of me taking this pic the place is on fire and the street is blocked off.

See FOB Brooke  and Walter Pekham and his wife they were just behind me.  I took my order and left and between the time I walked out and before Brooke got her food they were breaking down the upstairs door to try to get any tenants out!

Crystal Cox Pics-

If You Are A Lobsterman Who Recognizes Your Buoy, Come and Get It!

Update:
Happy Lobstermen Matt Ring and Chris Orsillo Give Thanks for Returned Buoys


Due to the increases in all oil based products, the price of lobster buoys have quadrupled. These guys are happy to get their buoys back!

.@DunkinDonuts giving away 10 tixs to #Bruins game (Mon). email DDBruins@rfbinder.com why you, or someone you know should go. Deadline Thurs

— AndreaWBZ (@AndreaWBZ) June 12, 2013

 

Hi Joey,

Pilar Garro, the Site Manager from the Beauport Sleeper-McCann House on Eastern Point (free admission for Gloucester residents, btw) just let me know that TV station ABC40 from Springfield MA is featuring a Road Trip of Cape Ann this evening.  Cool!

It will air at 5PM and will be available online at 6PM.

http://www.wggb.com/2013/06/11/wednesday-on-abc40-abc40-road-trip-cape-ann/

The feature includes Beauport, 7 Seas Whale Watch, Woodman’s, Man at the Wheel, Ryan & Wood and more.

Discover Gloucester has been working hard to increase visitation from our drive market, a 300+/- mile radius around Gloucester. Features like this and the Chronicle feature 2 days ago are a huge boost.

Rain, Rain- go away!

ROCKY NECK GALLERY’S SUMMER ARTISTS SERIES INTRODUCES NELLA LUSH

RIP TIDE
NELLA LUSH
Oil, wax on canvas   36 x 36

Rocky Neck Gallery is pleased to announce the second show of the Summer Artist Series introducing the artist Nella Lush and her exquisitely beautiful seascapes and frescoes.  The show, titled Nella’s Journey, opens Wednesday, June 12 until July 2.  An artist reception will be held on Sunday, June 16th from 4-6 PM.  The public is invited to attend this free event and hear Nella talk about her work and process.

An experimental artist, Nella enjoys working on a variety of subject matter from abstracts to frescos, nature and the sea.  The Cape Ann coastline is her muse where she spends time recording the atmospheric moods of the sea, light and sky.  Back in her studio she interprets these emotions on canvas where the process of painting is, for her, a spiritual journey.  She works mainly with oils using cold wax as a medium often adding marble dust to create more texture and depth.  It is her application and scraping away of numerous layers, again and again, that shape the final painting.

“I connect with things that leave a mystery… that the viewer is digging into the painting and each time they find something different.  I don’t seek perfection: I just seek to be heard and to have the viewer connect emotionally to my work and to bring them to a time and place in their life.”

Nella is represented by the Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT; the Mystic Seaport Maritime Gallery, Mystic, CT; Lorica Gallery, Andover, MA; and Peter Alpers Art, Andover, MA.  She is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists; a member of National Associations of Women Artists in NYC; Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA; a member and board trustee of North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, MA; President of the Andovers Artists Guild; and associate member of the Oil Painters of America.

Please join us and meet Nella Lush on Sunday, June 16th from 4-6 PM for a reception and artist talk.  Delicious refreshments will be served. 

RNG is located on 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester.  The hours are: Sunday – Wednesday: 11 AM – 6 PM, Thursday – Saturday: 11 AM – 8 PM.  Free parking is available.  For more information please visit our website http://www.rockyneckgallery.com or call 978-282-0917

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Greetings dear Joe,

My name is Tesa and we met a few years ago when I was director of Sustainable Cape Ann (we started the Farmers’ Market).

I moved to Indonesia three years ago, and now live in California but still love to support cool projects back in Cape Ann.  I did two interviews with Robert Newton in 2008 and 2011, which I just cleaned up and posted on my blog with a link to his current Indiegogo Campaign.   If you have time to read them, and feel comfortable mentioning them on your blog, I was hoping it might create some support for Robert’s fundraiser.

Warm regards,

Tess Silvestre

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The offshore fishing out of Gloucester ,Ma. couldn’t be better.I was out the other day and limited out on cod and caught some real nice sized haddock.I’m glad we are allowed to catch fish for my charter clients and also some nice locale fresh fish to take home for dinner.

I caught this nice haddock my self and decided that it was for my dinner.

Capt. MikeParisi

www.Amandamariefishing.com

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2013 Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship Applications Now Available

Applications for the Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship are now available at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, 33 Commercial Street in Gloucester, and online at capeannchamber.com. The Businesswomen’s Committee is delighted to announce that the scholarship award will continue to be $1,250 this year.

The O’Connor Scholarship is offered to a Cape Ann woman who is looking to change careers or re-enter the workforce, and who would require some form of continuing education to achieve that goal. Applicants must have a high school degree or its equivalent, be a legal resident of Massachusetts, and be accepted to an accredited college, university or job training program.

The deadline for submitting the application for the Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship is Friday, June 28.

Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship