Aug 18, 2009 - Gloucester, MA

While in Boston, we rented a car to see more of the surrounding countryside. Our first day we took the drive north to Gloucester, MA, one of America's oldest seaports. Click here for a history of Gloucester. It was also home to the Andrea Gail, the boat lost during "The Perfect Storm", which was partially filmed in Gloucester. It is also home to the first art colony.

Gloucester is still very much a working seaport and home to Gorton's fish.

An interesting boat on the hard next to the visitors' center.

The next two pictures are two sides of Rosie's Wharf, home to the Andrea Gail before it was lost at sea during the perfect storm

The view of Gloucester harbor from the art colony side

A cute house in the art colony

In the movie, "The Perfect Storm", the crew and friends gather in a harbor side pub called The Crow's Nest. This is a real place frequented by fishing people, but it is across the street from Rosie's Wharf and not on the wharf itself. For the movie, a wharfside, temporary Crow's Nest was constructed. The picture below is of the original, real Crow's Nest.

This familiar statue, "Man at the Wheel" was erected in a park on the Gloucester Harbor in 1926 to memorialize the thousands of Gloucester fishermen who never returned from the sea.

Team Finnegan in front of the Man at the Wheel

As part of the Fishermen's Memorial, there is a multi-panel plaque with the names of the 10,000 Gloucester men who have been lost at sea. Below is the entry from the men from the Andrea Gail.

The Glousester harbor lighthouse.