View Full Version : Cape Cod Maritime Museum "Festival"
Vince Brennan
03-08-2009, 10:10 PM
June 14-15 (Sat - Sun)
What can anyone tell me about the Museum and it's Festival, which - I gather - is a long-running annual event?
I ask as I've been offered a space as an exhibitor (still gotta pay, of course!) and was wondering if I could get some objective reviews of the place, surroundings, reputation, etc.
Much appreciated!
Vince
switters
03-09-2009, 11:15 AM
Ian should be along, he lives right there. What are the dates this year?
Vince Brennan
03-09-2009, 11:41 AM
Swits, dear, I realize that losing the "Rocky" has impacted all Coloradan's ability to read, but REALLY, old fella. Look at the top of the post.:D
Thanks... forgot Ian was a local!
switters
03-09-2009, 12:08 PM
I just saw it when I opened the thread again. My bad, and losing the Rocky was actually very hard on me, my favorite of the two dailies since 1989.
Ian McColgin
03-10-2009, 01:25 PM
It's an evolving community thing. The lawn of Bismore Park is great for demonstrations and the foot traffic there and down the dock, what with ferrys, boats and artist shanteys, is pretty active.
Vince Brennan
03-11-2009, 12:35 AM
Begad, Switters, it's entirely a prophet y'are then! Lookie there! He fookin' apparitioned outta the ether! D'ye have a Crystal Ball or merely a far-seeing gronicle?
Thanks, Ian. Got the PM too!
Vince Brennan
03-11-2009, 11:25 PM
Well, having manipulated the wilderlands of Massachusetts' Regulations and Bureaucracia, I now have a Sales Tax License, so if you're going to this thingie, look me up!
switters
03-12-2009, 10:05 AM
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk221/switters_bucket/DSC01615.jpg
very short sighted gronicles, but here is a view from the back of the museum.
Good luck, my travels will take me to the cape this summer, hopefully it will be at the same time. Having an EBS with Ian is well worth the trip just to listen to his stories.
rbgarr
03-12-2009, 11:12 AM
Taken a while ago as Sarah waited patiently for summer sailing.
http://i41.tinypic.com/69nm7t.jpg
You could do a roaring trade in jibs and rudders. They seem to have not cottoned on to the ideas of either.
It's a godawful place even the pilgrims gave up on it.
Vince Brennan
06-03-2009, 11:16 PM
Well, it approacheth with great speed...
I understand that traffic in the Hyannis area is not to be believed on a summer weekend, so have taken a room as close as I could to the festival location.
Any suggestions for decent dining in the immediate area? I haven't received an invitation to Teddy's so am on my own.
rbgarr
06-03-2009, 11:34 PM
There's a breakfast place (Sunrise Diner?) at the intersection of Center/Old Colony and Main Street that serves a hearty meal. I don't know about other meals.
Ian McColgin
06-04-2009, 07:56 AM
I have been a regular for almost 30 years at the "SunnySide" on the northwest corner of Main and Old Coloney, right where the Hyannis downtown one-way begins. But I must say that that's because I like cheap and don't mind developing immunities. Right across the street and back east a nudge is Persy's Place which is more appreciated by tourists and those with finicky stomachs.
Mary Ellen says I'm making Persy's sound bad and that I'm making a macho dare for you to eat at the SunnySide. Perhaps we'll get together and try each.
Mary Ellen also thinks you'd by far prefer the venerable "Gourmet Brunch" which is perhaps a half mile further down Main on the south side.
We'll try all three.
What are the dates, anyway? I've been so enjoying spring vacation in Chatham that I hardly know what's going on Mid-Cape.
Vince Brennan
06-04-2009, 08:38 PM
June 13 & 14. I'll get there June 12 (HoJo in W Yarmouth.... probably a pit, but what the hey...) early afternoon. 508 775 3825 Food sounds like fun and you'd be surprised at what I'll eat.
If you're presently in Chatham, drop by the Coast Guard station and say hello on Chief Dave Considine, a fellow knotter!
Vince Brennan
06-04-2009, 08:41 PM
There's a breakfast place (Sunrise Diner?) at the intersection of Center/Old Colony and Main Street that serves a hearty meal. I don't know about other meals.
What I'd REALLY like to find is a good "Portagee" restaurant (like the Little Kitchen) that understands how to destroy eggs and Andouille together. When I was in LA for Jeopardy, I found a little restaurant about two blocks from my hotel by sheer chance... I walked in and the first thing I heard was someone in the back yelling at a waitress in Portugese with a HEAVY Connecticut accent.
I was home.
Ate there every day I was there. (Bought a lot of Tums, too, but it was WORTH it!)
timfish
06-05-2009, 06:43 AM
Clem and Ursies is one of the better "Portagee" restaurants on the cape but that is up in Provincetown.Drift over to "Trader Ed's" in the Hyannis Marina for drinks in the afternoon. "The Dockside" is usually good for burgers and pasta.There is a British Beer Company west down main st.The restaurant "Embargo" is one of the more upscale places in town."Island Traders" is a good place for flatbread pizza on main st...Be aware of your surroundings as there is a fair amount of homeless,substance abuse,and even a couple of gangs that are in the area.DUI is strictly enforced.Its a nice place with a lot to do.I'll try to come by sat. afternoon.
Vince Brennan
06-05-2009, 02:31 PM
Having now been warned of the traffic by at least six people I am estimating that (on a good day, going downhill with a tail wind) I should be able to get from the motel (in W. Yarmouth) to the museum in something under a month or so... I've never heard so many negative comments about tourist traffic in my life, not even in Mystic! One guy told me that they must come up there to spawn!
timfish
06-05-2009, 02:42 PM
Tourist traffic is bad,cape driver's are worse(because of the tourist traffic).The Anchor Inn is right around the corner,not a bad place to stay if its not too late to change.
In June? C'mon. Yes, traffic is not real nice on Main Street in Hyannis. It's not really a street - it should be a pedestrian thoroughfare at this point. No, traffic navigating around Cape Cod is not full of miserable, unskilled drivers who exercise the worst possible manners to all and sundry. It's half full of people who are trying to follow instructions and read street signs and the other half of people who know precisely where they're going and don't want the first half in their path.
But getting from the HoJos in W. Ymth to the museum in Hyannis need hardly be a struggle. And it can be simplified by knowing where one is going to park when one gets to Hyannis.
I know it's fashionable to disparage Massachusetts drivers. But we are not the worst drivers in the country. We drive as badly or as well as drivers in every other state. The greater the local knowledge, the more likely the driver will be capable. The poorer the signage, the more likely the driver will appear to be a PITA to those who don't need the signs.
Vince Brennan
06-05-2009, 05:37 PM
I know it's fashionable to disparage Massachusetts drivers. But we are not the worst drivers in the country. No one who has driven along the New Jersey shore or (shudder) thru Dewey Beach in Delaware would ever do so!
While these are not the worst traffic areas I've ever experienced, they are certainly up there in the stratospheric company of Rome, Tokyo and Mumbai. I can't think that Massachusetts' drivers can have possibly improved (?) upon those hell-holes. (Well, there IS always Boston...)
adampet
06-14-2009, 11:16 AM
Had visit with Vince yesterday. Just a few pics as I'm heading to son's Graduation.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/Vince.jpg?t=1244992449
adampet
06-14-2009, 07:07 PM
More pictures as promised.
and a few captions.
Gannon and Benjamin Charlotte
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/Charlotte.jpg
Museum catboat Sarah
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/Sarah.jpg
CatboatOld Sculpin
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/OldSculpin.jpg
Walter Baron of Old Wharf Dorys and an outboard skiff
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/OldWharfskiff.jpg
Suzanne Leahy of Marine Restoration and Salvage with her Baybird
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/SuzanneBaybird.jpg
adampet
06-14-2009, 07:09 PM
A perfect Hyannis Harbor scene.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/Harborscene.jpg
And a lovely varnished dory.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/adampet/Dory6.jpg
Adam
Vince Brennan
06-17-2009, 01:45 PM
Well, it was a pleasant weekend, and a few of you did stop by... most notably Adam (thanks for the pic!) but the proportion of poseurs to sailors was enormous. I guess I expected more boaters due to the displays and the location but we mostly got tourists... c'est la vie.
All-in-all, not a bad little show. As you saw from Adam's pics. there were some VERY nice boats there and some talented builders... I think I'll do it again next year, just to be ornery, BUT:
Stay the hell away from the Howard Johnson's motel in West Yarmouth. You couldn't ask for much closer to the show but the nightly live cockroach races were a bit... unsettling...
Tell the festival organizers, Vince. Or write a letter to the Cape Cod Times.
Ian McColgin
06-18-2009, 07:27 AM
I heard from the roaches that a certain rock band egged on by a knotty fellow was pretty unsettling.
My friends from Connecticut got a ride on Sara and had a lovely time, bought a lifeline bracelet, and generally enjoyed the day. One of the years I've got to get out of country camp early enough to be there.
Vince Brennan
06-23-2009, 08:28 PM
Final post on this:
Thanks to Ian, I have NO problem getting off-cape on Monday AM...(my own stupidity got me a one-time ride around on the roundabout, but after that, it was smooth sailing and I was in Fall River before I knew what happened.
I have't'a say that going EAST into Fall River and then New Bedford is a LOT prettier than gong west! (Don't matter which way you're going, Providence is just fugly... sorry!)
My frst time up there and I really only made as far in as Yarmouth... SWMBO keeps threatening to drag me to Provincetown (wants to see me suffer, I guess) but so far it ain't happened.
Great to see everyone who stopped by! Thanks to Adam for pics, Ian for directions and a great conversation and Bill Sauerbrey and Mark Williams of Beetle Cat for a funny, funny dinner!
Next year again in Jerusalem (or Hyannis... whichever!)
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