My View of Life on the Dock
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It is the live view of the Ocean Voyager exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium, the world’s largest aquarium, located in Atlanta, Georgia.
This is an oldie but goodie for the new viewers.
A two hour video compressed 32 times fast. Camera mounted to the rigging and shot using the Kodak zx-3
Cape Ann TV’s After-the-Beach Video Club visits the Gloucester Schooner Adventure at the Marine Railway on Rocky Neck. Joanne Souza, Schooner Adventure’s Executive Director, describes the ship’s newly restored windlass to the students.
Burnham’s Field is the largest green space in central Gloucester. Recently there’s been a resurgence of pride in Burnham’s Field, including a new 20-plot garden. GoodMorningGloucester is now running a series of video profiles of the Burnham’s Field Community Gardeners. Here are their stories.
By John McElhenny
Burnham’s Field Gardeners – Girl Scout Troop 523 in Gloucester
Members of Girl Scout Troop 523 in Gloucester (left to right) Courtney Ashwell (16), Kelly Biondo (14), Emma Thomas (15) and Sage Frankenstein (15) show how to add personality to a garden plot. (Hint: it involves several cans of brightly colored paint.) The girls, along with Troop Leader Diane Wolff-Thomas and fellow Scouts Emily Moore and Jessi Silva, are learning about gardening firsthand with their own garden plot.
George hardy sold out. Traps, buoys, permit and all to a nice fellow from Marblehead.
Weird seeing Marblehead across her stern but life goes on and at least she will continue lobstering.
This shot was taken just minutes before her final moments in the port of Gloucester after dozens of years in our fair port.
Here is a a story we documented about George Hardy and the Hard Bottom a couple of years ago in these pages which unfolded over the course of a week.-
July 23, 2008
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.
Here’s half of the broken davit on George Hardy’s boat The Hard Bottom.
George’s davit snapped from the strain of trying to get his lobster gear up from the bottom of the ocean floor while being entangled with the traps of four other fishermen. This is the second davit that has snapped in three days.
When the first one snapped he went and replaced it with a piece of pine (shown below). So he saved himself a few bucks by using the cheap scrap pine, but cost himself two days fishing due to the mechanical failure of the soft knotty pine used as a davit.
Adding to George’s frustrations on this particular day was the fact that his backman overslept so he had to go fishing alone.
Here’s a picture from two days ago of broken Davit #1
Hear George’s choice words as he disassembles the second broken davit aboard his boat in three days in the upcoming video at 9:00AM.
I’m hoping the next one he replaces the broken with is made out of something stronger than untreated pine.
Hey George, you have no idea how happy I am that you decided to make the new davit out of steel instead of knotty pine. It was painful watching the frustration as you disassembled that second one. Video coming soon! Looks like the third time is a charm.
If anyone has been following the George Hardy Broken Davit debacle, there is hope. Watch the video.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about click this text for the background
This one from the perspective behind the Schooner where all the action was including the jacking of the bow and the hammering away at the blocks!
Click here for the dozens of posts containing the building and launching of The Schooner Ardelle here at Good Morning Gloucester.
I think it is safe to assume that no one covered it as well all the way through as the GMG team.
Great Job everyone!
Wake Up Sleepyhead! See what you’re missing?
Excitement Builds and Off She Goes!
Video from www.CapeAnnSUP.com
SUP action in The Essex River, Cranes Beach and Gloucester Harbor.
Photos Video and Text- Adam Bolonsky
Larry Memhard’s dad owns Cape Pond Ice down the Fort. His mom is curator of the Cape Ann Museum. Here’s Larry in action at Good Harbor Beach.
The blurry stills come from a 2-minute video:
Good Harbor Beach Skimboarding.
Shot with a discontinued old school SD/VGA Flip video camera protected by a waterproof case.
Filmed 4:45AM 7/8/11 The Creek Good Harbor Beach
Our Friend Daisy Nell Has Written a book about The Essex Schooner Ardelle.
Here is a video we did a couple of years back in which Daisy explains the term “Schooner”
Click the video for all the details and to see past winners-
Three Contests Every Saturday Through The Summer 3PM, 6PM and 8PM
Don’t forget to watch Thursday Night at 9PM on ABC. If you can’t watch the show, set your DVR to record it!
This clip is 26 minutes into the show, click the arrow to watch it on hulu-
Here are some of the exclusive pictures I took of our Hometown Heros aboard The Sanfilippos Gloucester Dragger, The Captain Domenic-
I took one from down in the Fish Hold Looking Up at Them on deck
Joe, Gus and Nino
Sometimes when I bitch about having to get up at 3:45AM every morning for work I forget about being able to bring you scenes like this-
and then it all seems so worthwhile
(turn up your speakers and let the sound of the waves wash over you)
#luckytobehere
A Huge Thank You To The Horribles Parade Committee who is working on the parade all year long to insure everyone has a good time. Our hats are off to you and all the hard work you do-
Al Kipp, David Tucker, Pete Williamson,
Doug Goolsby, Mike Turner, Melissa Cox,
Darryl Goolsby, Dave Harvey, John Linquata
Good Morning Gloucester 