Draggers/Old North Wharf Progress

Several draggers were here for the blow today. All western rigs-




Paravane birds-


Day shape in a dragger rigging-


Bow of the Mayflower-


Draggers tied to the east face of Straight Wharf-


Bucky-


A house on the waterfront being rebuilt. Notice only a very small portion of the original structure was saved-


Work on the rebuilding of the end of Old North Wharf is moving along nicely. The AGM guys have laid the frame for the walkway and are getting ready to deck it over-



And finally a Common Goldeneye in the Boat Basin-

Flat Calm Today

Nice morning out scalloping today. Flat calm. A rare day on the water this time of the year.

Geff Folger-




My office-



Brant. These geese follow me around all day eating eel grass that gets stirred up by my dredges-



Captain Harvey Lynch-


Neil Cocker-


Captain Brian Borgeson in Blair's old boat-


Some ice moved in at one point today-


And finally, a video clip from today-

Old North Wharf Dock Progress

Work on the new dock at the end of Old North Wharf is going along well. I have followed the progression since day one of the rebuilding. Recently, the guys from AGM have moved their big barge and crane way down by Kevin Shore's old fish market. Today at low tide, they were setting huge concrete pads as the base for the pilings. Here are some scenes from today-

Blast From The Past

Blog reader, Rich Sullivan, sent me a picture to post. It's a shot of Eddie O'Brien on a mooring ball after the No Name Storm of 1991-


More old pictures. Matt Kniskern sent me pictures of his mother, Eugenie Stackpole heading in on the family's bay scallop boat. Notice they placed the scallops in burlap bags back then.



Matt also sent me pictures of a huge turtle a dragger brought into Nantucket sometime in the 1960's. His father, Frank Kniskern, took these pictures. I think Tobey Lesk is in one of the shots.

Snowy Waterfront

We received several inches of snow today. I went down to the docks to have a look-

Cold!

It was cold and snowy out there scalloping today. The temperature barely made it to 30 degrees. I grabbed a few shots of the guys working-





And a short video clip-

Low Tide!!!

We've been experiencing extreme low tides this week. I went down to a very cold and windy waterfront today and grabbed a few shots.

From Jetties Beach looking NE towards the mouth of the harbor-


The harbor side of Brant Point-


Hulbert Ave looking west. Note the exposed eel grass beds-



The rock at Hulbert Ave-


Looking back towards First Point with the Miss China off in the distance-

Iced Up Dragger

One of my waterfront informants alerted me early this morning of a dragger heading through the jetties on a slow bell. She was heavily iced up and barely making way. She probably spent the night steaming up from down around Nantucket Shoals having a rough trip no doubt. Her name is Voyager and she's home ported in New Beige. Here are some pictures of her I grabbed soon after she arrived at Straight Wharf-






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Late this afternoon, this dragger was leaving the harbor-