Tag: Lobstermen Truck Series

Allison Wile- Lobsteman

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Allison Wile is a lobsterman.  She lobsters with husband Tim.

She says that she likes to go-go-go and get through hauling the gear in a hurry while husband Tim likes to take his time and find just the right spots to set back the trawls as to no set his trawl over other lobstermen’s trawls.  That’s a pretty considerate way to go lobster fishing.  Some lobstermen are considerate while others will set their gear on top of yours  even if they know you are set in a spot.   That is when lobstermen have to break out the knife and cut each other’s trawl lines to get their gear to the surface.  It can deter a guy from setting back in that location and drive him away from good lobstering.  It can also start mini lobster wars where no one wins.

Allison Wile- Lobsteman, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lobsterman Truck Series- Doug Opie

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Here’s Doug Opie, skipper of The Broken Arrow with his catch at our doors here at Captain Joe’s.  Check out his faithful sidekick Cash in the back window making sure everything is in order.

Lobsterman Truck Series- Doug Opie, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lobstermen Truck Series – Tom Hale

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Lobstermen Truck Series – Tom Hale, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Here is Tom Hale and his GMC pick up truck.

Here Tom replaces ID tags on some used lobster traps he purchased from Mark Ring. He is taking Mark Rings tags out and putting his tags in.
There are several reasons for the ID tags. Sometimes a lobster trawl will lose it’s buoys. The tags are a way for another lobsterman to identify the lost gear if they cross groundlines underwater and get the gear up in a tangle of the two lobsterman’s gear.
Lobstermen also have a certain number of traps they can set. These tags are issued from the govt. So the govt issues a certain number of ID tags per lobsterman. It is a way to make sure that lobstermen don’t set more than the allotted amount of lobster traps because each trap has to have a tag.

Lobstermen Truck Series- Tom Hale

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Lobstermen Truck Series- Tom Hale, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Tom lobsters out of a 16 foot tri hull skiff. He keeps his boat at Granite Pier in Rockport and sells his lobsters to us. This time of year when it’s particularly hot he will load the lobsters into huge coolers and bring them to us so they don’t die on the ride in 90 degree heat .
Tom started lobstering in May of 1994 and lobsters after work at his full time job at Varian.
He had his truck sprayed with a durable liner so that he can load these used traps in and not worry about them scratching up the bed of the truck.

Lobstermen Truck Series- Joe Sanfilippo

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Lobstermen Truck Series- Joe Sanfilippo, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Here is Joe Sanfilippo’s Chevy pick up truck.

Joe carries the normal stuff that skiff lobstermen carry in the back of their pick up trucks- fuel jugs, water jugs, covered fish totes to put bait in, some random buoys.

What you might also notice in the back of Joe’s truck are the dory oars and bench set up that he uses to train for the upcoming International Dory races. Joe is an avid rower and always a contender to represent Gloucester with his partner in the International Dory Races between Gloucester and Lunenburg.

He lobsters out of a 22 foot Eastern skiff after work at Gloucester Engineering and on weekends with his son Ryan.

Row Hard Or Row Home -International Dory Racing Sticker

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This is a sticker on the back of Joe Sanfilippo’s Truck. The eliminations for The International Dory Races will be held June 7th at 8:30AM at Niles Beach. It’s a great time to grab a coffee and head over to beautiful Niles Beach to watch them compete. Bring the family and get into it, it’s local and a great way to get involved with the waterfront.  It  costs $50 to join up and use the Dorys located at Saint Peter’s Marina all year long. For more info check out their schedule and website.

Row Hard Or Row Home -International Dory Racing Sticker, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lobstermen Truck Series- Joe Sanfilippo

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Lobstermen Truck Series- Joe Sanfilippo, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The back of Joe Sanfillipo’s Chevy pick up.
Fuel jugs, water jugs, a funnel, some buoys, fish totes with bait, and oars.
Notice the diamond plate rail caps which protect a lobsterman’s truck from abuse when stacking traps in their truck. If you slid traps up and down an unprotected truck rail it would get scuffed up pretty badly within the first day. With the diamond plate you can abuse it pretty good without damaging the rail of your truck.

Lobstermen Truck Series- Scott Horne

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Lobstermen Truck Series- Scott Horne, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

In today’s edition of Lobstermen Truck Series we feature Scott Horne and his GMC Sierra pick up.  This is a big ol truck.  Note the extended cab to lug Scott’s boys around and full size bed which he uses to transport trap to and from the dock to repair and store them.
Scott works at Gloucester Engineering and part time lobster fishes.  He has had his boat The Touch of Grey for over ten years and has gotten his money’s worth out of that boat I’ll tell you that.  In the summer it isn’t unusual for him to use his lobsterboat for double duty of pleasure (going up the river) and then lobstering along the way.
Here Scott is putting on a load of gear.

Lobstermen Truck Series- Scott Horne

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Lobstermen Truck Series- Scott Horne, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lobstermen Truck Series- John Herrick

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Lobstermen Truck Series- John Herrick

Here is John Herrick skipper of the lobsterboat Bluegrass and waterfront director at the Annisquam Yacht Club. The Bluegrass is a 22 foot Novi skiff out of Annisquam.

His truck is a Chevy with a spray in liner, and a bed rail rack system that allows the rack to be adjusted forward or back. Pretty convenient.

John is a disciple of the Tony Gross bait management system where he dumps his stinky bait into totes with no holes which prevents the bait juice from dripping into the truck and stinking it up.

Lobstermen Truck Series John Herrick

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Lobstermen Truck Series John Herrick, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Don Lodge-Lobstermen Truck Series

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Don Lodge-Lobstermen Truck Series, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Donny poses with his brand new titanium Dodge Heavy Duty Pickup truck.

Donny is a teacher and administrator at the Calvary Chapel Baptist Church. He teaches 7th and 8th grade. After Donny is done with his responsibilities at the Church, he goes lobstering.

If you would have seen Donny’s old truck you would know what a huge step up this brand new baby is. His old truck was costing him as much in monthly repairs as the payments on this beautiful new Dodge.

Donny’s lobsterboat is named the Le La Lo Da. He came up with the name after the phonetically sounding out the first syllable of his kid’s names. Lisa, Laura, Donna, and David.

Congrats on the new truck Donny. If anyone deserves it, it’s you.

Don Lodge -Lobstermen Truck Series

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Don Lodge -Lobstermen Truck Series, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Notice Don has a spray in bed liner for his brand new Dodge. It is a $400 option and it is what we put on our trucks.

It isn’t the same type of spray in liner like the ones they used to put in trucks. the rhino spray in liners are more rubbery and tended to fade over time.

The newer spray in liners harden and won’t tear like the older rubbery ones.

Good Choice Don

Lobstermen Truck Series -George Hardy

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Lobstermen Truck Series -George Hardy, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Here is George Hardy and his GMC pick up.

George went the plywood bedliner route. Here he unloads traps from the truck to load onto the boat and later set.

It’s that time of year. Trap setting time!

Lobstermen Truck Series -George Hardy

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Lobstermen Truck Series -George Hardy, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Lobstermen Truck Series -Larry Tamillio

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Lobstermen Truck Series -Larry Tamillio, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Here is Larry Tamillio with his Toyota 2×4. He skippers the Stardust.

Larry usually has this thing stuffed to the gills with some type of building material or scrap.

He fishes out of Beverly but brings his lobsters down here to Gloucester to sell to us. We’ve been doing business with Larry for a long long time and before that with his dad Chi Chi who passed away a couple of years ago.

Chi Chi used to play Santa in Beverly when Santa would arrive by boat to bring presents to the kids in Beverly at the Town dock there. Larry carries on the tradition now.

Two great guys that I feel lucky to do business with.

Larry’s Toyota lists a little to the left until he gets out of it, lol, but I bet the guys with the big oversized trucks would be jealous if they saw his fuel bill.