My View of Life on the Dock
This sailboat had broken loose from it’s moring in Rockport the night before last. I’m surprised it landed where it is without any visible damage. It isn’t tied to the stone pier, it just happens to look that way in this picture.
Sailboat Broke Loose From It’s Mooring, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Beth Williams Studio, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
What Up Chica?
So George Hardy set out to go lobstering yesterday afternoon and within hauling of the first couple of trawls he busted his davit.
A davit is the boom that hangs out over the boat with a pulley that the line goes through to pull the traps up onto the boat. It hangs out away from the boat so the traps dont gouge the boat on their way up over the rail.
The reason his davit broke was because when he went to haul his traps up from the ocean floor there were four other lobstermen’s trawls set over his. so when he went to lift his trawl up, the entanglement of four other lobstermen’s gear was being lifted at the same time. Apparently it was too much strain for his old wooden davit and it snapped.
This time of year the lobsters are in close to shore so all of the lobster gear is concentrated in a much smaller geographic area. It creates much tension among lobstermen fighting for prime lobster bottom.
The result for George was a davit that snapped in half. Not good.
Broken Davit On The Hard Bottom, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Paint Factory, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
*slurring* “Is that a rope dress you’re wearing?”
“This better not go on the blog!”
500 times- “What do you guys think about Abe & Louies?”
Bill Powell the Tomato at Moon Villa after stuffing down a dozen or so greasy chicken wings- In the deepest grunt possible “hhguuugh”
“I bet you can’t lift up Brian’s Porsche.”
“I’d like a Grey Goose with Grey Goose with a splash of Grey Goose please.”
At 8:27AM 7/15/08 watch as Bobby Bobskill performs the first GoodMorningGloucester Fisherman’s Brew taste test.
Garden In Front of The Ocean View Inn, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Bees Going To Town On The Rosa Rugosa, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The slime eels enter the inverted cones and then can’t escape.
Slime Eel Traps, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Halverson/Oconnell Wedding At Dawn Good Harbor Beach 7/12/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Dumping Barells Of Slime Eels, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Lady J, City Hall July 10, 2008, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Lewis H Story sits aground at low tide.
Lewis H Story, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Damn I’m such an idiot. I shoulda brought some down the dock for a mid afternoon snack.
The Mrs’ Broccolli Salad, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Bubbles mom sent me a comment telling me that Bubbles on Main Street should have won and wasn’t duly represented in the Downtown Merchants’ Flower Box Competition because I didn’t include her oustanding and creative flower and shell garden in front of her Main Street storefront. I told Bubbles Mom that I’d make it up to her so here is her honorable mention for the fantastic display she put her hard work into to make our Main Street ultra hip and cool.
Thanks Bubbles!
Bubbles Flowers- Honorable Mention, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This morning I was checking the web for pictures of other people’s lobster rolls to stack up against Mrs Captjoes’
What I found was shocking and disturbing. It seems these mooks up in Maine have found a way to fuck up ruin a perfectly good lobster roll. Listen to me, under no circumstances should the words lettuce, paprika, French baguette, or celery enter the equation when speaking about lobster roll preparation.
I ran across a blog from a nice fellow from Ohio, Curt who runs a great blog about grilling and bread- Bucky’s BBQ and Bread. He details on his blog his exploits in Maine trying to find the perfect lobster roll and comes up with four entries all of which have critical flaws in what they call a lobster roll.
Here is one of Bucky’s pictures-copyright 2008 Curt McAdams
Can you spot the how wrong this is????? Lettuce???? French Baguette??? What kind of pansy ass bullshit are those Mainer’s trying to pull off on their poor unsuspecting tourists that don’t know any better?
Thank you Curt for providing that photo as an example of what not to do to bastardize such a wonderful Northeast tradition as a lobster roll.
Take notes Son
For the proper way to prepare a lobster roll see this post–
She seems to have hit a little lull in forward momentum.
Evelina M Goulart Restoration Update 6/30/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 