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I just accepted a position with a company in Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod starting at the end of September. I am excited about moving closer to the ocean after 6 years of schooling in the MD/DE area. Any words of advice would be appreciated (even non-boating related) since I am unfamiliar with the area. Now that school is done, I can finally start seriously looking at boats too!
I worked for a Falmouth company for almost 20 years, in the offshore acoustics and ROV industries. Both my sons still live there with their mother. Which company?
Nope, But I know a lot of those guys, or at least some of the guys who used to work there. I put a tracking system on ALVIN and the KNORR. I left Massachusetts about five years ago.
Its a very incestuous set of arrangements between the consulting groups, WHOI, and the Navy in that area. Guys use Govt. funds and WHOI resources to come up with neat ideas, then form a consulting group to write a proposal to supply the equipment the Navy paid to develop via WHOI, back to the Navy. I do know a lot of them. They were customers of mine!!
I just accepted a position with a company in Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod starting at the end of September. I am excited about moving closer to the ocean after 6 years of schooling in the MD/DE area. Any words of advice would be appreciated (even non-boating related) since I am unfamiliar with the area. Now that school is done, I can finally start seriously looking at boats too!
-mitch
I did the exact opposite. I grew up on the Cape (Chatham), but moved to the DC area several years ago.
Good things about the Cape:
Striper fishing in the summer
College girls in the summer
Great duck hunting
Easy to get a CCW permit
Tons of great boating
Nantucket
Can fish commercially part-time for extra cash
Awesome summer weather, never too hot
Bad things about the Cape:
Cold 9 months of the year
Snow
Stripers are only there for 4 months or so
Summertime traffic
High cost of living
Lousy job market
Lot's of inbreeds that think they're better because their family goes back 8 generations to the Nickersons or the Eldredges
Everything will rust after 2 days outside
Falmouth and Hyannis also have higher crime than the Harwich - P-town area.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that you can watch the Red Sox at any time on TV. Well, not to mention that you can also head to Fenway if you can get tickets.
Gringo, if you worked on the Knorr and Alvin, you must know my former neighbor, Bob McCabe, WHOI Port Manager. Great guy...
CMP
I dont know him. When I was putting equipment on Alvin I was working with Barrie Walden. Also some other WHOI guys, Chris Von Alt, Dana Yoerger, Roger Maloof, Tom Dettweiler (all in the Deep Submergence Group), Peter Hickey, a few others. I know a lot of the people at Benthos, Deep Sea Systems, Falmouth Scientific, ORE, etc.
Thanks for all the advice! I realize I'll just have to be patient with traffic, but hopefully the good fishing will make up for that. When I interviewed I was reminded over and over again that I was in Redsox country when all the news talked about for 2 nights in a row was Arod and his canadian mistress.....guess I'll just have to get used to that too.
Well, the traffic is really only bad Memorial Day to Labor Day. Outside of that there's pretty much none. Just don't try to cross over the bridge during the day on a weekend, could take you a bit. It's taken me as much as 3 hours from Chatham. Granted, you'll be a lot closer. There was a bar in Woods Hole (maybe Falmouth) that I liked going to called Landfall, not sure if it's still there. There was a weeknight during the summer that it was particularly busy.
There was a bar in Woods Hole (maybe Falmouth) that I liked going to called Landfall, not sure if it's still there. There was a weeknight during the summer that it was particularly busy.
The Landfall is still there. I don't think they still do Monday Night Madness anymore. But I am to old for any Madness anymore, forget Monday night... But boy you brought clouded memories back, about nights that I can barely remember but I was told I had fun.... Time Flies...
If there are any specific question feel free to ask. There are a good group of Falmouth people on here.
Guys, I have been living in Falmouth for 2 years already! The landfall is still rockin, Friday & Sunday late nights, during the summer with live music. A good place to be!
I worked for a Falmouth company for almost 20 years, in the offshore acoustics and ROV industries. Both my sons still live there with their mother. Which company?
Do you know David Delater with Perry Slingsby? You guys have definately trounced over the same turf. He works me now with ATFP
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Guys, I have been living in Falmouth for 2 years already! The landfall is still rockin, Friday & Sunday late nights, during the summer with live music. A good place to be!
Movin to the Cape (falmouth)! 
