My View of Life on the Dock
Rosalie Parisi forwards-
Joey,
This was taken at your fathers Wharf in1982, it is a story about my family and the fishing industry.
In the end of the video my Uncle Charlie who passed last week is pictured weighing out the boat at our dock.
Uncle Charlie was a rock of a man, the strong type of family man who led the family by example.
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Heading Out of Smith’s Cove
Courtesy Fred Buck at The Cape Ann Museum
To compare this and put some perspective to this accomplishment you can compare that 22,819,054 he landed to the total number of all groundfish landings in one year by all boats in Gloucester in 2010 were 81,400,00lbs. His average trip over those 120 landings was 190,158.78 lbs. This was landings of groundfish, not herring or pogies or mackerel.
amazing
*Total landings of all species on groundfish trips were about 81.4 million pounds in 2010. This compares to landings ranging from 102.4 million pounds to 107.2 million pounds in the 2007-2009 fishing years. Groundfish landings on groundfish trips also declined from a high of 71.6 million pounds in 2008 to a low of 58.0 million pounds in 2010[11]. Non-groundfish landings on groundfish trips also declined from a high of 39.3 million pounds in 2007 to 23.3 million pounds in 2010 (Table 3).
In the bottom picture you can see FOB Kurt Lubbers on the stern of the boat and after that the video tours we did aboard the boat this spring.
Here’s a series of video tours we did last spring aboard the boat-
Got the day in yesterday while the rest of the fleet was tied up. Won’t get these days back in February when the lobsters stop running. Every day fishing this time of year equals 4 in the winter. sometimes more.
After the Digital Photography class at the Essex Ship Builder’s Museum took this picture .. love the boats reflection
Over 4 pages worth.
Thanks to Penelope Crane for forwarding the link.
Click the pic below to check ‘em all out
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Gillnetter ready for demolition at the Gloucester Marine Railways.
Sam Novello and crew repair the net after a return from Stellwagen Bank.
Photographs by Kathy Chapman
Ann writes-
I’m thinking about boats today. Somehow they seem to bring hope and promise to those who love to be in, on or near them!
Ann writes-
In addition to the Hannah Boden, does anyone recognize the other wonderful boats?
The infamous one follows up with this –
joey – here’s a piece from the 1909 sanborn insurance map that shows where the parkhurst and burnham railways were in relation to each other. few years earlier than the pilot boat pix, but the layout of the inner harbor didn’t change that much until urban renewal. fyi, around 2005, some internet angel posted a complete set of the cape ann sanborn maps, from 1885-1917 in pdf format. i downloaded them and have been using them ever since. gave copies to the gloucester archives and sfl, and converted them to grayscale tifs for my own research purposes. museum has these on board as well as the original full color hand-annotated atlases (that weigh about 50 pounds each!) you want to know how this place has changed over the years? never mind the pretty pictures, go to the maps. they tell the story like nothing else can.
joey,
last month a nice chap named dave bennis came in to see me at the museum. he was one of the volunteer crew on the ‘highlander sea’ (nee ‘pilot’) when she came into our port and wanted to see if we had any photos of the vessel in her days as a pilot boat in boston. we found a few and here’s one taken of her by gordon thomas in 1960 on parkhurst railways for some work. just so she wouldn’t feel lonely, i found another one of ‘roseway’ (pilot boat #2) on gloucester marine railways in the mid 50s. dave’s gone back to his day job as lighthouse keeper in the upper peninsula of michigan, but i hope he sees these and comes back to visit us again.
infamous fred buck
check out the cape ann museum
Joey adds-
After recognizing the building in back of the parkurst railways I decided to pull up this picture I took on September 4th ,2011- 
Can you line up the windows with the building in the top picture?
www.gloucesterwebcam.com just killing it!
The latest addition, the working docks of The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center now named Maritime Gloucester. This one’s a beauty!
Now with 22 live Cape Ann webcams and more to come!
Still on tap- The Schooner Lannon webcam, and Schooner Adventure as well as a repositioning of the Cape Pond Ice cam where they fill the holds of the fishing fleet with ice on Gloucester Harbor, also a Dun Fudgin webcam from Cape Ann Marina and Mile Marker 1 webcam.
Have you checked it out yet?
Special thanks To Tim Blakeley from www.gloucesterbytes who has been installing the webcams at a reduced service rate because he believes in the project.
The Cabaret V Is a Beast. 47 feet long and beamy as a bastard. Big and roomy with plenty of deck space to shift gear and lobster like a lobster boat should- with the ability to move large numbers of lobster traps to areas where the lobster will be next.
On a small boat you are limited with the amount of gear you can shift and the weather you can fish. On the Cabaret V Pete and his dedicated crew can fish rough weather comfortably and chase the lobsters by moving large amounts of lobster traps in front of the lobster moves to the deeper water and off shore.
Congrats Pete.
Good Morning Gloucester 
