The Schooner Thomas Lannon Salutes The Bounty 8/31/2012 Gloucester, Ma
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Kenny MacCarthy Runs Down This Weeks Open Houses In Gloucester With You
Call Kenny to look at any that interest you- 978-758-0983
Kenny is my podcasting partner. we will be doing more podcasts this winter when things at the dock slow down.
You can check out kenny’s website Cape Ann Info Here
You Can Listen to Older Episodes Of The GloucesterCast Here
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The Bounty Arrives in Gloucester Harbor
The Bounty Arrives in Gloucester Harbor 8/31/2012
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Past Schooner Festival Videos
Past Schooner Festival Videos
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ZIP TRIP FOX 25
ZIP TRIP FOX 25
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Here’s the Video from This Morning’s Zip Trip Gloucester Ten Questions Segment With VB and Your Boy Joey
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The GMG crew brought the thunder led by Sista Felicia, Mammaw, crushing the killer lobster rolls, Ed Collard, Donna Ardizzoni, BJ and Amanda, Kim Smith,Vickie and Peter and Ron Gilson. Sista Felicia made The Mrs’ lobster roll recipe perfectly. Lots of Fun!
Donna Ardizzoni and Kim Smith passing out Sista Felicia’s Famous Italian Donuts
Mayor Kirk Up Now
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City Hall Ventilators From Maggie Rosa
Joey
I thought that the community would find the attached photos of interest. One, taken on Monday, is of one of the four ventilator towers with the cresting restored. The second photo shows the cresting in a photo from the Cape Ann Museum’s collection.
Maggie
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Here are the Schooners Participating In The 2012 Gloucester Schooner Festival and Contact Info For You To Reserve Your Spot On Board For The Schooner Races!
Here’s a list I grabbed off the Chamber’s great website which lists each Schooner participating in the 2012 Gloucester Schooner Races. To Connect The Dots For You and bang the point home this is what you need to do-
Click on the highlighted link under or or above each schooner to go to the website and contact the Schooner to reserve your spot aboard. Gloucester harbor is going to be jamming back and forth with all these schooners and to be on the water it will be magical!
YOU WILL NOT REGRET BOOKING YOUR SPOT ON ONE OF THESE BOATS AND BEING PART OF THE ACTION!
I’m convinced 99% of our population outside of the schoonerheads don’t even realize that they can get aboard and race. The costs to go out for a sail is not even a rounding error on the cost of owning a boat for a year.
What, you’re still reading this? You should be on telephone with Kay Ellis or the people at The Ardelle office booking your reservation for this weekend. Hurry up will ya?
28th Annual
Gloucester
Schooner Festival™
August 31 – September 2, 2012
Participating Schooners
Thomas E. Lannon
Gloucester, MA
1997
(978) 281-6634 info@schooner.org
Ardelle
Gloucester, MA
2011
978-290-7168 mobile
email: info@schoonerardelle.com
Adventure
Gloucester, MA
1926
Adventurer
Norwalk, CT
1925
American Eagle
Rockland, ME
1930
Bald Eagle
Gloucester, MA
Estrela
Prudence Island, RI
1975
Fame
Salem, MA
2003
Green Dragon
Manchester, MA
Irena
Newport, RI
1986
Lewis H. Story
Essex, MA
1998
Liberty Clipper
Boston, MA
1983
Perception
Vineyard Haven, MA
1983
Spirit of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
1984
Sugar Babe
Gloucester, MA
Summerwind
Kings Point, NY
1929
Attraction Vessel:
The HMS Bounty
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Newly Engaged FOBs Kimberly Funk & Bradley Scheetz!
Hi Joey-
My boyfriend (now fiance!) Bradley and I really enjoy your blog and we LOVE Gloucester (we definitely have the wheels turning for a relocation from Boston one day). Thought I would share a Gloucester story from this past Sunday..
We often come up on the weekends to hang out and one of the things we (mostly me) like to do is look for sea glass at Pavilion beach. That’s where we were this past Sunday when Bradley called me over to look at something in the sand. Just sitting on a rock was a beautiful shiny sparkly ring. I was a little slow..even thinking aloud that someone must have lost their ring..doh! Anyway it was for ME and we got engaged right then and there! We were super lucky that local, Amy Clayton happened to be on the beach and she snapped some pictures for us! Here our a couple of our favorites ..
Kimberly Funk & Bradley Scheetz
8.26.12
In my haste to get this story up my software automatically watermarks photos with Joey Ciaramitaro Photo, but noticed this morning that I didn’t change the photo credits when I originally posted this story. I corrected it to the proper credit this morning-Amy Clayton Photo.
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28th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival Caps Off Cape Ann’s Summer Festival Season on Labor Day Weekend, August 31 to September 2
Peter Webber writes-
Good afternoon. As Labor Day draws nearer we are looking forward to capping off a great Cape Ann summer season of festivals with the 28th annual Gloucester Schooner Festival, from Friday, August 31 through Sunday, September 2. We invite everyone to show your support for the Festival and help draw more customers and visitors into your place of business by printing and posting your own 8 ½ by 11 Schooner Festival poster. You will find a direct link to this year’s poster here. You may also may also view and download a printable version of the detailed schedule of weekend events here.
This year the Cape Ann Chamber and the Schooner Festival Committee have placed a renewed focus on supporting the next generation of sailors in a number of ways, including an invitation to up to 20 Cape Ann area teens (ages 12 to 18, first come, first served), to ride aboard participating schooners during the Parade of Sail and the Mayor’s Race for the Esperanto Cup on Sunday, September 2. If you know of anyone interested in being one of these young sailors, please contact the Chamber immediately to reserve his or her spot. In addition, the entire proceeds from one of the two raffles being run this year by the Schooner Festival Committee will be shared between the Gloucester High School sailing program and the Gloucester Museum School.
Details about both schooner raffles and the entire 2012 Gloucester Schooner Festival (including a full schedule of shore side activities on Saturday, capped off by the Parade of Lights and the Fireworks Display over Gloucester Harbor) can be found at www.capeannvacations.com/schooner.
On behalf of your Chamber team, the Gloucester Schooner Festival Committee, and the Gloucester Fireworks Committee we wish to express our thanks to all the sponsors and supporters of this year’s Schooner Festival and fireworks display. Your generous and continuing support make it possible to produce this great annual festival showcasing Cape Ann at its finest.
Also, remember to save the date of Thursday, October 4 and buy your ticket soon for the Chamber’s annual $25,000 Game. Only 500 tickets will be sold and the grand prize, as always, will be $10,000. Tickets are available now at the Chamber office and from members of the Chamber’s Board of Directors.
We wish all a great Cape Ann weekend. Best regards. Peter
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Alright Here’s My Top Pick For Schooner Festival
Al Bezanson and I have been beating the drum for you to make your reservation for a sail aboard one of the many fine Schooners coming to Gloucester for Schooner Festival but I have to put my two cents in here as far as my Number 1 Pick.
Obvi- The Thomas E Lannon.
Tom Ellis and Kay and Heath and their crew are hands down the friendliest funnest people ever to sail a schooner. Tom Ellis being my hero and all doing something he loves to do and getting paid to do it in such grand fashion.
So anyway call now to book with the hometown team- The Lannon or The Ardelle. Once the Ardelle sends me their Schooner Festival schedule I’ll post it as well.
This from Kay-
Lannon and the Schooner Festival
The Schooner Festival is our favorite weekend in Gloucester. Lots of schooners will be here this year and that always makes for interesting sails. The Lannon will be sailing a lot over those few days, so check out our schedule and join us if you can. It is always fun to see these other vessels in our home port.
Friday, August 31st, we are sailing from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 3:00-5:00 p.m., 5:30-7:30 and offer a sail in the moonlight with dessert from 8:30-10:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 1st we sail at 12:30-2:30 p.m., and 3:00-5:00 p.m. Then we offer a chowda and lobsta roll sunset dinner sail from 5:30-7:30 and a fireworks sail with dessert from 8:00-9:45 ish.
Sunday, Sept. 2nd is Schooner Race Day. Come onboard and join the crew for the day as we lead the Parade of Sail and then race in the Mayor’s Race for the Cameron Cup. Great fun!
Monday, Sept. 3rd, we sail from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 2:00-4:00 p.m. and offer a sunset Celtic Music sail from 4:30-7:00.
We never seem to know exactly when the participating vessels will be arriving and departing, but we will do our best to sail near them for you. Bring your camera!
Give our office a call at 978 281-6634 to make your reservations. We hope to see you onboard.
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National Geographic Filming at the Weigh in at The 2012 Bluefin Blowout
National Geographic Filming the Crew of the “Maya Elizabeth” at the Weigh in at The 2012 Bluefin Blowout at the Cape Ann Marina 08/25/2012
The crew of the Maya Elizabeth Won with a 582lb Bluefin Tuna.
Congrats!
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I Think I’m Gonna Be a Star!
No Autographs Please
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Lifting The Winning Fatty at the 2012 Bluefin Blowout Video
Lifting The Winning Fatty at the 2012 Bluefin Blowout
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The Biggest Hugest Most Ginormous Blue fin Tournament To Hit Gloucester In Decades Begins IS UNDER WAY! The Bluefin Blowout! Mile Marker 1 Is Gonna Be Off The Rails
Mile Marker 1 is Undoubtably Going To Be The Place To Be This weekend For The Weigh Ins For The Bluefin Blowout. video coming
Follow the progress on twitter @BluefinBlowout
and on Facebook for leader updates /BluefinBlowout
Pics from Brianmoc
For updates click here-
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Susan McGee asks About Vegetarian Restaurant offerings Around Gloucester For her Visit
Hello Joey,
How lucky I am to have stumbled upon your Interactive Eats page! Great work! I could use some of your help, if you have a few minutes.
I have enjoyed several trips to Gloucester with visiting friends (we are in Salem, NH). Very soon my family will be visiting and we want to explore Gloucester during the Schooner Festival. We have an 87 year old Mom with us, so we are limited in speed and distance for walking. We are planning to get to Gloucester early, and base ourselves around the Harbor Loop, take the water taxi for some easy water time to view the schooners, and go to different locations in Gloucester in the water taxi.
Here is where I need your help – Do you know of any good places to eat that have at least a few vegetarian dishes? While I am a huge seafood fan, one person is not, so ideally there is a place with good seafood and other options for vegetarians as well. My plan is to park at Harbor Loop. Hopefully we will find suitable parking if we get there early enough. Maybe the water taxi goes to some great place within the harbor?
In the meantime, I will go through all the listings in your map and check out their menus. Just thought you might know of something off the top of your head. Thanks so much for putting the map together!
Susan McGee
Anyone have some good suggestions for Susan? Pipe right up in the comment section of this post.
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City Hall Weathervane in 1989 before She Was First Hoisted Atop City Hall From The Infamous Fred Buck
photo courtesy Cape Ann Museum
Fred writes-
joey – here’s the schooner with a broken mast on top of city hall. the copper model was created by washburn on rt. 114 in 1989 and donated to the city by the cape ann savings bank. this pic was taken just before she was hoisted up to her place of honor. it is, of course, the elsie, built in 1910 by a.d. story in essex. gordon thomas, in fast and able, called her "one of the greatest." if anyone can help bring her down for repairs, step forward! a model of the elsie by cape ann master craftsman erik ronnberg is on display at the cape ann museum. it’s a beautiful thing…
infamous fred
This post is in response to our August 16th photos from David Cox showing the Elsie weathervane in serious peril below-
Sail on City Hall Schooner needs help–David B. Cox Photos
Posted on August 16, 2012 by Manuel Simoes
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Mobile Studio View. The State Fish Pier
Mobile Studio View. The State Fish Pier
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Live Community Blogging The 2012 Gloucester Waterfront Festival
We will be posting updated pictures all day long from the Gloucester Waterfront Festival.
If you wander down there snap a picture or two. if you are a vendor down there send in your photo in front of your booth and we will post it. Send in your iphone/android phone pics from the waterfront festival to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com
If you don’t have a camera or the ability to take a picture head to our GMG booth(Booth 88) and Amanda will take your picture and send it in.
9am to 6pm each day
Where to Park?
Free parking along Stacy Boulevard or at the High School.
However, please note that there is small fee to park across the street at Beach Parking.
Directions … Stage Fort Park, Hough Ave, Gloucester, MA
Easy to find … From Route 128 North, take Exit 14, follow to end.
Weather … Held Rain or Shine! …and it’s gonna Shine!
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce … Area info dining, shopping…
Meet the Artisans at the Gloucester Waterfront Festival …
7:30AM getting set up.
There are a limited number of the new GMG T Shirts for sale in these sizes-
M, L, XL Pink
L and XL Sunwashed Blue
L and XL Navy
S, M Lg Youth
Dri Fit Long Sleeve Navy (Bad Ass) Limited number of these and once they are gone we probably wont be getting more.
Mason Jars with Iced Tea
8:45AM:
Report From The Waterfront Festival and Rotary’s Pancake Breakfast From Ron Gilson
12:00PM Update From Bill O’Connor
Taken from High above on Tablet Rock
12:20PM Update Latest Mason Jar Iced Tea Customers- The Melvin Family
12:40PM Update
B represents at GMG Live!
Pictures From Around The Waterfront Festival Taken By Amanda
Good Morning Gloucester 