My View of Life on the Dock
I found this awesome Vintage Lisa Cobb/Saks Fifth Avenue lobster dress at a thrift store last night. I couldn’t pass it up! Originally, I wanted to add it to my online shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/Leeshalee (shameless plug), but now I’m having second thoughts and thinking of keeping it for myself! I have a Friend’s wedding in September and this dress would be perfect for their Maine Lobster Bake rehearsal dinner! Add a cute belt, strappy sandals and a September evening-Perfecto!
This process happened over the course of 10 minutes. I captured it on video and here are the pictures.
The Lobster Molting In Real Time Video Can Be Seen Here
Watch this lobster pull away from its old shell in real time at our dock in Gloucester
There’s not much worse feeling than waking up and realizing you are that horrible son or daughter that forgot to get your dad a present.
If you are THAT person, fear not. We will be open at the dock to bail your ass out.
Give us a call at (978) 283-1454 and order your dad the easiest most no-brainer gift ever and watch him smile when you deliver them. We open at 5AM 7 days a week but it’s best to call ahead so we can put exactly what you need aside for you.
I can tell you personally that lobsters as a gift have a huge impact which people do not forget. There isn’t anything where you make as much impact for as little money as lobster.
Bottom line.
We will be open Father’s Day, best to call ahead and put in your order and we will put exactly what you want aside for your morning pick-up.
Here’s the Captain Joe and Sons Website
The quahog??? Seriously????? How bout the steamer clam? Ever hear of of the Fried steamer clam joints all over the Massachusetts coast? I never once heard of a whole slew of restaurants dedicated to selling quahogs? Uhm, The Clam Shack, Woodmans, Essex Seafood, the list goes on and on all based on the steamer clam. For Christ’s sake, the lobster has more place as an official shellfish than the freaking quahog. Lets see how much revenue is generated by each shellfish before we go handing out that designation to a third tier shellfish. HELLOOOOOOOO!!!!!
What a crock of shit! This bill must be sponsored by some South Shore hack. Where’s our Goddamn representation???? North Shore Represent!!!!!!
Read The Story At The Boston Globe-
June 5, 2011
BOSTON—The lowly quahog will be the official shellfish of Massachusetts if a bill making its way through the Statehouse becomes law.
The hard-shelled clam has helped feed generations of New Englanders and served as a form of currency for Native American tribes. The word "quahog" is a shortened version of the name given the clam by Narragansett Indians.
The bill that establishes the designation is scheduled for a public hearing Monday at the Statehouse before the Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development.
Here’s a little hard data to consider-
The Lobster Boat Ayn
Waiting Their Turn
Haulin’ Traps
The Captain Joe, from Captain Joe’s
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Cute Video Found on Youtube
“Cat vs. Lobster”
You can visit Beth William’s incredible studio (the same place she sells her stuff is where she makes it)
17 Pleasant St Gloucester MA also on Twitter @BWilliamsStudio
Beth Williams Studio – 17 Pleasant St, Gloucester, MA 01930
View From the Winter HQ’s
Tuffy with a little teeny lobster next to a big ‘ol female.
Tuffy writes in-
I saw the (lobster) toby brought in on your website. The old timers used to call them snow lobsters but that probably isn’t the real sceintific name for them. They only get that big and they are not the same as the lobsters we are catching. It takes a keen eye to see them and ONLY after a really big blow. The last time Hussey and I spotted a couple on the rail was after 91′ storm. They burrow deep in the mud tunnels. tuf
that was a rare find
99.999% of folks never get to see what these tiny creatures look like at this stage of their development. We filmed the ones that came up in Toby Burnham’s aboard the Jupiter II traps and then released them to live another day.
Have you subscribed to Good Morning Gloucester yet? If not you may miss these things and what kind of Gloucester person wants to miss out on the insider stuff?
Toby Burnham aboard The Jupiter II brought them in and released them after we photographed them.
To see all the different mutant lobsters including albino ones, blue ones, yellow lobsters, speckled lobsters and more click here for past videos and pictures from our dock
No one cooks lobster like the Mrs. No-One! We’re still workin on the zugu but you put a pile of lobsters in front of her and she will make your taste buds sing!
This is what 87,000 pounds of water pressure will do to a lobster.
Click here for the story of how it got this way
thanks to Kurt Ankeny-Beauchamp for forwarding the story
Rockport 10/16/2010
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Tuffy Forwarded this along to me from http://www.NovaNewsNow.com
Six-year-old Kallista d’Entremont of West Pubnico, Nova Scotia has her hands, and arms, full with a 16.4-pound lobster her father Jeff recently caught aboard his vessel, ‘On the Move.’
Usually West Pubnico lobster fisherman Jeff d’Entremont and his crew will stick a rubber band around the claws of the lobster they catch.
But one lobster he recently pulled aboard his vessel ‘On the Move’ was so big the crew had to improvise with black electrical tape around the crusher claw.
“It was the only thing that we could get around it,” d’Entremont laughs.
The lobster d’Entremont caught weighed 16.4 pounds and was about three feet, or around a metre, in length.
Asked what the reaction was when the huge crustacean was hauled aboard the vessel, d’Entremont says, “I don’t know what to tell you. We just said, ‘Oh my God.’”
D’Entremont was fishing about 58 miles offshore from the Dennis Point Wharf the day the lobster was caught. He ended up selling it. At the time jumbos were fetching $4 a pound.
“I should have kept it and mounted it but I ended up selling it,” he says in hindsight, although after the sale he did have second thoughts. “I actually changed my mind but when I went back it was sold.”
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