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Beautiful Industry- Dory Plug
These plugs went into the bottom of the dories that Grand Banks Dory Fishermen used back in the old days. They were used to drain water from the dories once they were brought back aboard the schooners. But they also served another purpose. Geno tells me that the loop that comes off the bottom was used in case the dory flipped over in the ocean. Capsized, there would be nothing for the dory fisherman to hold on to once the dory was upside down. So that loop which would be through the bottom of the boat would be used for the capsized fisherman to pull himself onto the upside down boat in the water.
Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Beautiful Industry- Hydraulic Control Aboard The Stanley Thomas
Beautiful Industry- Hydraulic Control Aboard The Stanley Thomas, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Below the hauling station aboard Johnny “Doc” Herrick’s Dog & I is another example of the hydraulic control which operates the lobster boat’s pot hauler.
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Beautiful Industry- Controls Aboard The Stanley Thomas
You don’t suppose these controls have seen their fair share of use do you?
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Schooner Adventure Sails Into Gloucester 1988 From Ron Gilson’s Collection
While at Ron Gilson’s house I saw this poster sized picture of The Adventure coming into Gloucester Harbor under sail in 1988. What is interesting about the picture is that if you look at City Hall in 1988 it was surrounded by scaffolding under a reconstruction. Some twenty years later it was surrounded by scaffolding once again.
Look for the first of a three part video series from Ron Gilson’s house satrting todat at 8:00AM
Schooner Adventure Sails Into Gloucester 1988 From Ron Gilson’s Collection, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Chickity Check It!-Ron Gilson Author Of An Island No More Is Blogging!
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Ron Gilson’s TheGloucesterILove.Blogspot.com
From Ron-
This blog, hosted by noted author and Gloucester historian, Ron Gilson, will commence regular publication on Friday, March 20th, 2009. We look forward to your joining and engaging us as we embrace both the past and the future of America’s oldest commercial fishing port, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
I really enjoyed our three part interview with Ron this week. To check it out you can click on these links-
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Ron Gilson- Gloucester Fishing Historian Video Interview Part III
Gloucester’s True Fishing Industry Historian, Ron Gilson Talks About Gloucester’s Fishing Past In This Third Part Of Our Video Interview-
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Ron Gilson- Gloucester Fishing Historian Part II
Gloucester’s True Fishing Industry Historian, Ron Gilson Talks About Gloucester’s Fishing Past In This Second Part Of Our Video Interview-
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Ron Gilson- Gloucester Fishing Historian Video Interview
Gloucester’s True Fishing Industry Historian, Ron Talks About Gloucester’s Fishing Past
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Beautiful Industry
I don’t always know what I’m shooting, but my eye says, “Hit the button and don’t ask questions!”. So that’s what I do. (And then I ask!)
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Donna Marie- Naples Longliner Stern View
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Longline Hooks Ready To Be Clipped On The Main Line
Longline Hooks Ready To Be Clipped On The Main Line, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Crab Traps, Naples Fl
Crab traps are very similar to lobster traps but are square shaped instead of rectangular. They also have the openings on the top of the trap and do not have knitted heads like a lobster trap.
Crab Traps, Naples Fl, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Many Gloucester fishermen have fished out of Naples at one time or another, mostly longlining for swordfish back in the day. Mark Ring has a few great stories he tells from his days fishing in this port, none of which I can repeat here.
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Crab Traps, Naples Florida
They pour cement in the bottom of the crab traps so they will land bottom first once set off the boat. This way they will fish properly. Very few lobstermen pour cement in the bottom of lobster traps but I have seen it here and there. The prefered method of weighting a lobster trap is with bricks. This is another difference between lobster traps and crab traps.
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Naples Longliner Donna Marie Longline Set Up
The heavy monofilament line is wrapped around the spool. It goes up and through the blocks and out the stern of the boat with clips of mono and individual hooks on them. Hopefully each hook has a fish on it!
Naples Longliner Donna Marie Longline Set Up, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
As always with any of the pictures on the blog if you click on them it will bring you to the flicker page where it is hosted. There you can select the option “all sizes” above the picture for the full size version in which you can see the pictures full size and in greater clarity.
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The Donna Marie- Naples Longliner
Other than the obvious hauling and setting from the stern of the boat can any of our commercial fishermen readers comment on any other differences between how they longline out of Naples versus Gloucester?
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Donna Marie Longliner Video
Longlining explained aboard the Donna Marie. For any commercial longliners that watch the video feel free to jump in and correct any of my mistakes from the video. I’m not a fisherman but would like this to be as acuurate as possible. Just leave a comment below the video if you would.
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Beautiful Industry- Voyager Herring Boat Block
Just like the net reels on the Mid Water Trawlers, the blocks they use on these boats are ginormous compared to anything we use on the shore side docks. This block is probably rated for 20 times the weight or more (I totally pulled that number out of my ass) than the blocks we use on our hoists.
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Submersible Herring Pump Attachment
This attachment goes on the end of a large in diameter hose. It gets lowered into the water over the side of the boat to suck the herring out of the net and into the hold of the boat where the fish is refrigerated in cold water to keep it fresh and the best possible product it can be for packing.
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Beautiful Industry- Voyager Herring Boat Net Reel
See all those pipes that feed into the side of the net reel?
They are hydraulics which power the net reel to turn and stop. It’s amazing to me how much pressure they must be under to move such heavy equipment. I’m surprised they don’t burst all the time under that kind of pressure.
Beautiful Industry- Voyager Herring Boat Net Reel, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 