Tag: Len Burgess

Adventure Takes First Sail With All Sails Up Photos From Len Burgess

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Listen, you can put all that talk around town that The Schooner Adventure was Gloucester’s Big Dig to rest. You can also put to rest the talk that it could have been rebuilt five times over brand new with the money they spent by saving a little corner of the hull and rebuilding around it like they’ve done with the Bluenose up in Nova Scotia. 

None of that matters now.  She took her first Sail With All Sails Up Today!

A GLORIOUS DAY! 

Congratulations to all those that have put in the time, effort and cheddar to make this day happen.  Huge accomplishment.

Look for the Adventure to Sail In This Year’s Schooner Festival which To Me Is THE STORY of this year’s Schooner Festival (along with the first annual lobster bake on Harriett Webster Pier)

Len Burgess writes-

Hi Joey, I didn’t get to sail on Adventure’s great day but arrived in time for the crew’s celebration. -Len Burgess

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Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s "Intense Digital Photography Workshop"

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Len Burgess submits-

Barry O’Brien and his volunteer teachers, Len Burgess, Kathy Chapman, Dave Delorey, Tony Schettino, and Mike Dyer, lead an intense photo workshop at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum Saturday to help raise money for the Museum. We had perfect weather and enthusiastic attendees. Here’s the class picture taken by Dave Delorey (who magically always manages to get into the photo too).

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Beautiful Gloucester Gulls from Donna, Sharon, Mark, Len, Ann, David, and Nicole

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

WOW!! Thank you for sharing your Gorgeous Homie photos!!!

A second batch of new photos will be posted on Saturday. photo

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The above photo comes from Mark Lombard and the below photo, of seagulls in the snow, is from Donna Ardizonni.

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As Ann Kennedy says, ” photos from a Gulliver (Gull-lover).” Ann’s photos are not strictly Gloucester Homies–though all are beautiful and included nonetheless.IMG_0218IMG_0163P1020594P1090298P1090299

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The above photo was taken by David Parsons. David writes, “This was taken on the Yankee Clipper. We were Pollock fishing Dec. 2011.”

And from Nicole, “Homies on the Hood!”

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Posted in the order in which they appeared in my inbox.

We Can Get Busy Livin’ Or We Can Get Busy Dying. What’s It Gonna Be For You In 2013?

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Len Burgess submits-

Joey, our man for all seasons, thanks for all the fun in 2012 too…

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Joey edit-

Yeah I look pretty silly in this hat. Yeah we got freaks like Morrison strapping a Rubber Duck around his waist and Ardizzoni wearing a wonder woman outfit, newphew BJ and his buddies and Amandacakes and her buddies wearing bodypaint, and all our other crazy community friends that take part of the Polar Plunges all over in icy cold water.

It’s a New Year.  Break down some barriers for yourself, don’t let others dictate how you act, stay positive, have fun and follow your passions through.

YOU CAN GET BUSY LIVIN’ OR YOU CAN GET BUSY DYING. 

WHAT’S IT GONNA BE FOR YOU IN 2013?

Fish-Flops- Yep That’s Right Fish-Flops From Len Burgess

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Len Burgess showed up with these bad boys-

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Hey Joey, here’s a shot of your– one of a kind– prototype "Fake"-Flops. Happy you liked them.

Maybe you could find a manufacturer. I’m surely not going to make anymore!

Glad I made the party, thanks.

Len

Here they are on my desk-

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The next person that buys 5 DVD’s or T-Shirts get’s them thrown in their package for free. 

Salt Lake City is getting some North Shore Ice Crystals…From Our Len Burgess!!!!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Len writes-

Back in the beginning of the year an architectural designer, Catherine Widgery purchased a lot of my macro photos of ice crystals that she found on my Flickr site, ‘Photoholic1’. She used them, combined with lightning graphics, into large etched-glass windows for a transit station platform, elevator enclosure and stairs in Salt Lake City, Utah which is now under construction. Here’s a few photos of the work being done. -Len Burgess

Check out some of the great projects that Catherine has done and is designing for future contracts.

http://widgery.blogspot.com/

Also, click here for the link for some of my photos that were used to design the transit station project…

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HOW COOL IS THAT???????

Congrats Len!!!!!

Harold Burnham and his crew returned on the Schooner Ardelle from Washington, D.C. Photos From Len Burgess

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Harold Burnham and his crew returned on the Schooner Ardelle from Washington, D.C. Tuesday afternoon, with friends and family welcoming them back at the Maritime Gloucester Center.

Click below for slideshow

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Ardelle Report for Saturday Night From Len Burgess

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

On Saturday Harold Burnham and crew made good nautical mileage today and if everything goes well they’ll be sailing into Washington Sunday. its now anchored for some rest tonight off of the town of Newburg, MD. near the Route 301 bridge.

    Looking ahead to Sunday…the weather forecast in the Washington area will be mostly sunny except for a few afternoon clouds, temperature High 76F. winds light and variable.

   Check out more info at… http://www.facebook.com/pages/Essex-Shipbuilding-Museum/174653662579160?closeTheater=1

-Len Burgess

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Tracking the Ardelle

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Len Burgess writes-

As of Tuesday night the Ardelle was at the southern tip of New Jersey near Cape May and at the entrance to Delaware Bay and are planning to take the Intercoastal. The new site to track the Ardelle that seems to work is http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/. Once there enter Ardelle in the ship search box and hit enter.

-Len Burgess

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This is the probable route for the Ardelle and crew to get to Washington.
-Len Burgess

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Update from Al-

0530 9/26 wind SSW 18-21 kt and Ardelle is still making slow progress beating toward Cape May. Been a long night out there with the wind right on their nose If they go up the Delaware they’ll be having a nice ride once they get around Cape May and the tide starts flooding. Delaware Bay entrance will be rockn’ and rollin’ at the ebb with this breeze. The flood begins just before 2 PM.

If they reach Cape May entrance at the start of the flood they will be in tall clover for they will have fair current for over 50 miles to the C&D and thence fair current just starting and all the way through the canal and well down into the Chesapeake. Then fair wind down the bay to the Potomac.

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Update:

As of Wednesday morning the Ardelle is still at the southern tip of New Jersey near Cape May and at the entrance to Delaware Bay. It is reported that the engine is down and needs a new part.