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Calico Lobster — pat morss

Good Morning Gloucester

I also took Joey up on his invitation today to meet the Calico Lobster at Capt Joe & Sons. Joey personally introduced me to a very active and handsome crustacean. He/she may look already steamed, but definitely wasn’t.

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Lobster Boat Mini-Tour. It’s Sunday- We’re Open and Lobster Prices start at $4.50lb! https://captainjoes.wordpress.com/

Captain Dave Jewell Gives a little tour of his lobster/charter boat the might F/V Lady J!

You can learn more about chartering Dave’s boat at this link- www.ladyjfishingcharters.com

Prices starting at $4.50lb

Call and put in your order for this weekend.  978-283-1454

Open at 5AM daily (excluding 4th of July).

Today’s Prices:

phonto

Culls- $4.50lb

CHIX $5lb or 10 Chicken lobsters for $54

Pound and a quarter lobsters $5lb / 10lbs for $50

Pound and a halves $6lb

*while they last!

95 East Main St Gloucester MA 01930

 

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Lobsters Starting At $4.50- Come Down To Captain Joe & Sons To Buy Your Lobsters and Witness The Glory of Beautiful #GloucesterMA Harbor

Listen we know you have choices.  The way I see it you can go battle the insanity at overcrowded supermarkets that probably bought and stored lobsters that were caught last fall in some warehouse space where the lobsters are peeing in the same tanks they are living in for months ORRRRRRRR you could come down to our dock and buy right from the docks where we offload ONLY locally caught lobsters (NEVER CANADIAN) and everything gets turned over daily.  More often than not you’r going home with lobsters that were landed hours if not minutes before they go into your bag.

The choice is yours.  You either love your local lobstermen and want to see them survive or you’d rather support some overseas owned conglomerate corporate chain that could care less about our guys (insert frowny face here).

Prices starting at $4.50lb

Call and put in your order for this weekend.  978-283-1454

Open at 5AM daily (excluding 4th of July).

Today’s Prices:

phonto

Culls- $4.50lb

CHIX $5lb or 10 Chicken lobsters for $54

Pound and a quarter lobsters $5lb / 10lbs for $50

Pound and a halves $6lb

*while they last!

95 East Main St Gloucester MA 01930

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Hoooray! It’s Lobster Eating Season!

Prices starting at $4.50lb

Call and put in your order for this weekend.  978-815-5595

Open at 5AM daily (excluding 4th of July).

Today’s Prices:

phonto

Culls- $4.50lb

CHIX $5lb or 10 Chicken lobsters for $54

Pound and a quarter lobsters $5lb / 10lbs for $50

Pound and a halves $6lb

*while they last!

95 East Main St Gloucester MA 01930

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1947 Viking Pump Publication Featuring Our Grandfather Captain Joe Ciaramitaro and His Boat The Benjamin C

Joey,

My name is Chad Wunderlich and I work for Viking Pump, a manufacturer of pumps in Northeast Iowa.  I’ve been going over some old publications we sent out to the field over the years and came across the attached article regarding the Benjamin C from our winter 1947 publication.  A Google search landed me on your site and I thought you might be interested in having a copy of the article (attached).

 It was interesting to me to read the Atlantic Fisherman article posted on the site which mentions, among other things, the Viking bilge pump as well.

Regards,

Chad Wunderlich

captainjoevikingpump1

 

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Lobster trap tag washed up in Cornwall, UK that was attached to a trap in Gloucester MA harbor that belonged to our lobsterman Tommy Burns, skipper of the F/V Arethusa

Good Morning Gloucester

Hello from England!

We found this lobster trap tag washed up in Cornwall, UK a few days ago and wondered whether it might have once belonged to lobsterman Tom Burns of the boat Arethusa? Not sure if it’s the same person or not but it would be wonderful to find out!
With very best wishes from Tracey Williams in Newquay, Cornwall

I put it into a google map and did a distance calculation- 3052 miles!

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Old Packing Slips Discovered- Sea View Lobster Co. Gloucester Mass. Telephone (Gloucester, Mass.) 1324

Bradley Scheetz who bought a house on East Main Street a couple of years ago found stacks of these lobster packing slips hidden in the attic.  I’d never heard of the Sea View Lobster Company and I’m not sure when we used four digit telephone numbers here in Gloucester.

I’m curious if anyone knows who owned Sea View Lobster Co and where it was located.  Please share

Thanks Bradley for sharing this with us.

Maybe Pat Dalpiaz can figure this out.
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We Added A “New” Old Fairbanks Cart To The Captain Joe’s Family

At the dock there are a couple of key pieces of equipment.  The winch, the forktruck, the scales and the carts.  Any one of these go down and we’re in serious trouble.  We rely on them to work day in and day out.  In the worst of all conditions.

You know how the fishing industry is the second most dangerous profession in the world behind coal mining?  Well it might be the second most dangerous profession but handling saltwater fish is absolutely the deadliest profession for machinery.  Salt, and saltwater, fish grease and massive tonnage being handled daily create the perfect storm of corrosiveness and opportunity for mechanical failure.

That’s why whenever I have an opportunity to secure a Fairbanks Cart to help perform our job at the dock I leap.  This morning at 5:00 AM I drove a couple of hours to get my hands on the newest member of the Captain Joe and Sons Lobster Company Family.  One of the best parts about the Fairbanks carts are the plug in caster systems.  If after years you need new casters, you contact the company and they can ship you out new ones.

The decks are absolute beastly and handle incredibly poundings without skipping a beat.  I routinely lower 400Lbs of lobster crates on them when offloading the boats and then add another stack of 400.  No problem.

Here’s the new one.  I put a couple of coats of linseed oil on the oak decking and greased up the greased fittings and she’s ready for servicing our lobster fleet!

Our “Old” Fairbanks cart that’s helped offload millions of pounds of lobsters through the decades and our newly acquired Fairbanks Cart with the pretty green paint.

Isn’t she pretty?

http://www.fairbankscasters.com/
from the website:

For more than 125 years, the Fairbanks Company has been shipping quality material handling equipment from our manufacturing facilities in Rome, GA. Our facilities encompass more than 200,000 square feet of production and warehousing space. To maintain our leadership role in the industry, we have modernized our facilities with the latest in robotic welding, electrostatic powder coating and CNC machining of wood parts.

These techniques have resulted in the expansion of our product offerings, making us a premier supplier of casters, wheel, handtrucks, platform trucks and dollies.