My View of Life on the Dock
I included the full sized pic when you click through on the first picture so you can see the faces.
For a picture that will fit on your computer screen but won’t be blown up as large click the pic below
Amy talks about the hours, offerings and a special event this weekend with $1 scoops
The best of luck to Amy!
Grand Opening kicks off on Friday, May 28th with $1.00 scoops of ice cream between 4pm and 7pm.
Saturday, May 29th Kids Face Painters from Art Haven from 12pm to 2pm and A-Train Orchestra performing on the deck from 3pm to 6pm. Come join the fun!!!
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Many More Pics and Video Coming Later
In this picture when you click for full size you can see the camera men in front of each team as they sit on lobster traps on the stern of each boat
For all of the Good Morning Gloucester Amazing Race 17 Pics of The Contestants Loading The Boats and Video At The Start Of The Race Click This Link
You heard it here first.
This morning CBS Amazing Race kicked off filming right here in Gloucester. Here is a screen shot of video I’m uploading right now of the different teams being transported to the outer harbor where they will eventually land at Eastern Point Yacht Club and start the entire race from what I’m told. Plenty of Video and pics coming later today.
Yep you heard it here first WOOT!
CBS Amazing Race Gloucester Kickoff Preview Video On Good Morning Gloucester, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here’s Amy Blake the owner. There had been an ice cream shop in this space but Amy has added iced coffee, coffee and specialty teas. New hours, new items and more. Look for her video tomorrow morning.
Gloucester Zen Video Coming Soon Featuring The Boys At Work
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Here’s to a great season down on Rocky Neck. Brenda just got back from a six month stint in Thailand. Check out more on Brenda here
This Is the Location Of a proposed set of stairs which would connect the I4C2 site up to Rodgers street where there would be a straight shot up to Main St. Connecting the Industrial waterfront to downtown.
We have part two of our video series on Glazed featuring Delaney coming up tonight
Save the first Thursday of every month from June to September for Nights on the Neck, beginning June 3. Open Galleries and wonderful entertainment on Rocky Neck in Gloucester. Festivities are from 5 to 9 p.m.
Features for specific dates will be available at www.rockyneckartcolony.org/notn.html, or on signage in the parking lot on the Rocky Neck Ave causeway on the day of the event.
*Scheduled to perform on June 3:
Three Sheets to the Wind
The Schooner Adventure organization spawned Three Sheets to the Wind, a group of local musicians and Adventure crew members who are preserving the history of maritime work songs (chanteys) and forebitter songs.
Michael Kirsch/Ed Spilllert
Mike Kirsch and Ed Spillert (guitar, five-string banjo and vocals) will do a range of country, blues, bluegrass, rock and standards.
Chick & Ellen
A Gloucester fisherman and his Brooklyn-bred bride play oldtime and newfangled blues, folk, country, and swing tunes.
Steff Deschenes
The Ice Cream Theory is ice-cream guru Steff Deschenes’s charming exploration of the parallels between human
personalities and ice-cream flavors, a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the variety inherent in a well-lived life.
Gloucester Area Astronomy Club
The friendly folk of the GAAC will set up their telescopes on Rocky Neck, give out observing guides to any passersby who take an interest, and help them pick out things of note in the night sky.
Here are the first pictures of the GDF Suez Cape Ann direct from South Korea-
Joe McKechnie a great fan of the blog writes in-
Joey : This was supposed to be a surprise, but I noted in today’s GDTs, that the second vessels Name is now known. So I offer a few pics, the scoop for Joey. The Pictures are of the vessel at her final docking and bottom painting, just a few weeks back. The blue color was chosen so as to be as pleasing as possible to the eye. Note how close it is to the color of the sea.
I will be traveling to South Korea on Tuesday the 25th, for the official Naming Ceremony on May 27th. GDF SUEZ will then take delivery of the vessel from the shipyard, and the owners, on 1 June. Following this she will make her way for first official cargo loading, then onwards to the Neptune DWP, off of Gloucester, in August.
The vessels (Neptune and Cape Ann) are the two greenest LNG Carriers afloat today.
Joseph E. McKechnie
Here’s the skinny-
Neptune consists of 2 SRV‘s, an offshore terminal with 2 buoys and associated pipelines to shore. GdF Suez received a DWP license permit from US federal authorities in March 2007. The first phase of the construction of Neptune LNG DWP was installation of a 13-mile sub-sea pipeline which was completed in October 2008. The second phase was connection of the pipeline and installation of the two off-loading buoys for the project. The DWP is now close to completion.
Höegh LNG and its partner MOL ordered two SRV’s at Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea specifically for this project. These vessels are the most advanced of its kind, and will be able to meet the most stringent environmental conditions in the world for the emissions during operations at DWP. In addition, the first vessel already delievered, “GDF Suez Neptune” received the “Green Passport” from Det Norske Veritas (DNV) certifying the environmental considerations taken when constructing, operating and ultimately disposing of the vessel.
The first vessel “GDF Suez Neptune”, was delivered November 30, 2009 and the second vessel to be named “GDF Suez Cape Ann”, is to be delivered 2Q 2010.
The vessels incorporate the reinforced GTT MKIII cargo contaiment system with 145,000 cubic meters of cargo carrying-capacity at 100% volumes. She is fitted with three state-of-the-art regasification skids for a total output capacity of approximately 21 million standard cubic meters of natural gas per day (**), and is also fully capable of operating as standard LNG carriers.
| Classification | Det Norske Veritas |
| Length overall | 280.00 m |
| Breadth moulded | 43.40 m |
| Deadweight @ design draught | 71 000 tonnes |
| Deadweight @ summer draught | 81 000 tonnes |
| Service speed, 15% Sea Margin | 19.5 knots |
| Cargo tanks | 145 130 m3 |
| Main engine | DF medium speed engines |
| Number of tanks | 4 |
| Regas capacity | max 250 mscf/day x 3 |
This poor coyote must have gotten hit by a vehicle within the past few hours as the blood was still vibrant red.
RIP Mr Coyote. Hope your life on the island was a good one.
Gloucester At Dawn Poor Dead Coyote On Moorland Road 4:50AM 5/22/10, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Meet Marty and Barbara Luster and hear their story about how it came to be that they moved to Gloucester after 34 years in the same house in Ithaca NY
Welcome Home Marty and Barbara 🙂
I’m wondering how many cups of coffee Susan drinks a day?
Memory Layne (not her porn star name I’m told) and her man Joe are taking over the space formerly occupied by Elliott’s in the Historic Blackburn Building.
Check out the website for now and look for updates as to the renovations taking place in these pages.
Here’s the website for Giusppe’s Ristorante and Piano Bar
From the website-
It seemed like a simple request…
From the back of a restaurant, I called out, requesting one of my favorite songs.
Joe looked up at me from the piano and asked, “Can you sing it?” After we met that summer evening, Joe and I did what everybody does on Cape Ann…..walking beaches, breathing salt air, taking in the great food and entertainment.
Neither of us enjoyed being separated once the off-season rolled around and he traveled abroad for work. It didn’t take us long to figure out it was time to create a special place for people to enjoy great music, food and company.
We’ve been working and dreaming, in the hope that you will enjoy a unique and wonderful experience here at Giuseppe’s Ristorante and Piano Bar.
Joe and Memory
Good Morning Gloucester 