August Images and Gloucester Crossing!

Going through my database, I came up with August photos that I hadn't posted yet. And today I took a ride up to the Mall....Gloucester Crossing! It still is under construction but things are progressing. Landscaping is under way and store interiors are being filled. Another layer of pavement is needed for the access roads.The Market Basket supermarket appears on the small size while a hiring trailer is set up.

Gloucester Crossing sign goes up!

Market Basket hiring trailer!

Market Basket!

Gloucester Crossing!

Marshalls!

Side view of Marshalls!

Five Guys Burgers & Fries!

Joan of Arc statue!

American Legion!

Heavy cloud cover!

"Jesse Boyce" at mooring!

"J's Escape" and Melissa K."!

"Lady Mystique" at dockside!

"Lori Morgan"!

Lounging around!

"Pacifier"!

"Sharon Elaine"!

Danny Boy Was A Whimper of a Storm !

Well Tropical Storm "Danny" was a bust. Heavy rains and late gusts of wind but that was about it.

Silent Niles Beach!

Schooner in safe harbor!

"Samay" at the dock!

Fishing off a broken pier!

Lone fisherman heads for another spot!

A wet Good Harbor Beach!

Washed up seaweed at Good Harbor Beach Creek!

Surf at Good Harbor Beach!

Digging in the sand!

Digging deep!

Ten Pound Island light!

Beachcomber at Pavilion Beach!

Checking a find!

Lone truck and boat trailer!

Empty Dun Fudgin boat ramp!

Barge in a rainy Annisquam River!

Pleasure boat "Carona Nights"!

"Sunlight" in the rain!

Schooners "Westward" and "Spirit of Massachusetts"!

Wet Harbor!

Harbor Cove!

Rainy St. Peter's Square!

Calm Before The Storm !

With Tropical Storm "Danny" two days away the weather today was as perfect as it gets! With temps in the 70's and bright skies it was the time to head out in the boat before I got her "storm ready". My way of getting the boat prepared for heavy weather is to install all curtains, seal rod holders(they open to the bilge allowing rain in),lowering the VHF antenna and taking in any securing line slack.

Half mast in honor of Senator Kennedy.

Schooners "Spirit of Massachusetts" and "Westward"!

Stern view!

Working aloft!

Tall work!

Sailing lessons!

Young sailors!

Schooner "Thomas E. Lannon" in a breeze!

The "Lannon" and the city!

City skyline!

Snoozing fisherman and bait stealing gull!

Narrow hull of the "Robin Jean"!

Smart looking blue center console!

Fishing vessel "Sea Farmer II" approaches dock!

Profile of the F/V "Sea Farmer II"!

"Gone Fishing" dockside!

Crowded dock!

Grooming Gull!

Smiths Cove dockage!

Looking towards Pirates Lane!

F/V "Blacksheep"!

Lobster boat "Western Edge"!

Geno Mondello unloads lobsters!

Unloading at Captain Joe's and Sons Lobster!

"The Pirate of Cape Ann" and his 1st mate!

"Pirate" rows away!

Fishing for Blues!

Paint Factory siding!

Backside of the Paint Factory!