The City shares the following information on beaches / parking opening tomorrow Friday May 22. See this link for the entire message.  Enjoy your weekend, stay smart.

We have developed a plan that incorporates responsible procedures and guidance that will allow people to safely enjoy our beaches and Stage Fort Park. All beaches are open but as of tomorrow, Friday, May 22. This phase is anticipated to end June 8 but could be amended or extended.

Good Harbor Beach will be open to residents ONLY, at a reduced capacity. Wingaersheek Beach will be open to residents and a limited number of non-residents, at a reduced capacity. Stage Fort Park will be open to the public.

Parking at Good Harbor, Wingaersheek, and Stage Fort Park will be open to residents with a 2019 or 2020 beach parking sticker or license & motor vehicle registration showing a Gloucester address for entry. Non-residents will be required to pay daily parking rates at Wingaersheek and Stage Fort Park. Cash only and exact change is preferred.

Parking at Niles and Plum Cove Beaches will be for residents only with a 2019 or 2020 beach parking sticker. No parking will be available on Farrington Avenue for beach access and this will be enforced by the Gloucester Police Department.

All beach visitors are required to set up at least 12 feet apart from other groups on their towels, limit groups to no more than 10 people; wear face coverings or masks except when swimming, and carry in, carry out trash.

Additional information regarding beach stickers:

Those with questions regarding sticker eligibility can email bsticker@gloucester-ma.gov or call 978-281-9708. Inquiries will be answered within two business days. Due to high volume of applications, processing may take up to two weeks. Residents can enter parking facilities using last years’ parking sticker or a current valid motor vehicle registration and license with a Gloucester address until this season’s sticker is available. 

Since the Memorial Day Observance at Gloucester High is canceled, Cape Ann Veterans Services & 1623 Studios will air a special program on Channel 12 (Comcast) & their Facebook pages on Monday, May 25 at 11am to honor those who have served & continue to serve our country.

The flags have been installed on the Boulevard once again and they are beautifully inspiring. Thank you to all for the time, energy and funds to display these symbols of freedom and patriotism to thank our veterans: the DPW, Mayor Sefatia, Pauline Bresnahan to name a few. The holiday weekend is now official.

Huge movement going around town with different Facebook groups starting up to randomly drop off wine gift baskets or beer at people’s houses as acts of kindness during the pandemic.

Well my beautiful bride asked this question a couple of nights ago:

and wouldn’t you know Jimmy and Pat Dalpiaz came through:

Very sweet

BEER ME BRO!(or sis) Gloucester/Rockport

Throughout these last weeks in isolation, I have been keeping a journal. I knew right away that nothing was ever going to be the same again for all of us and I wanted to document my reactions as well as general news. For each daily entry, I tried to include one thing that made me smile that day. Today, I share with you what made me smile yesterday.  Yesterday’s lovely busy day on the harbor made it almost feel normal again.

When Kate and I bought our boat it had a pretty janky sound system on it.  There were speakers that were mounted to the t-Tops with bungy cords and the wiring for it was duct taped down the rails.  The sound system sounded decent but was really trashy looking.  couldn’t have it.  In the console there was the stereo system that took up a bunch of the space and the lettering on the control knobs were worn off.  it was big and cumbersome.  If I had to rate the whole set-up i’d have given it a 2 on a scale from 1-10.  it did provide sound but it just looked like shit.

So after we took the boat out of the water last year I knew when we started to work on it that the duct tape had to go.

After researching I was thinking I might get a large bluetooth waterproof speaker and just keep it in the console but when searching waterproof bluetooth speakers I came across these 6.5 inch marine bluetooth speakers that would run off our cell phones wirelessly.  It paired immediately as soon as we fired them up with my cell phone and then Joey Ciolino tried and he immediately paired up too!

Really sweet way to get tuns on your boat for next to nothing and actually have better options for listening to music than an old school boat stereo head unit.

They’re $65 on Amazon Link to Purchase and Reviews Here

So we took out the head unit (stereo part) and installed these which only require power and they sound awesome!

Listen to them in our test here-