This year's Cornish Sardine season gets underway.

Not many times the dry dock gets to host a yacht......
as the boats begin to assemble for Golowan's maritime celebrations this weekend, football notwithstanding on Sunday.......

back on Newlyn fish market here's just the sort of fish that Prosenjit Bhattacharya from the Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth couldn't wait to get his hands on during his Newlyn visit with Seafood Cornwall at the helm this week....
maybe he'll cook up some new recipes for Cornish Soles.........

and as a further sign of the summery times, the langoustine appear in the big beamer's log book.......

in the first days of the new season, why's top Cornish Sardine man Pete smiling with an empty tub?......

that's because he's just loaded the wagon with the rest of his night's work......

now it's time to wash down the Resolute, after a fruitless steam to the Eddystone of Plymouth earlier in the week only to find huge marks of tiny sardines the boys headed back to home waters and have been chasing marks of better quality fish north of the Wolf - years ago when the local boats fished with drift nets, Land's End Radio used to broadcast to busy shipping letting them know where the boats were - later, in the 1970s, many Scottish pursers had narrow escapes with passing traffic as they fished off Land's End chasing the huge shoals of mackerel ....

the short movie above harks back to a time when tea drinking and pipe smoking on the job were the norm and terms like ship-to-shore, wireless, big set, teleprinter, telex, link call, traffic route (TR) and "I haven't got anything today for you old man" were used by an small army of operatives whose faceless voices came to be readily recognised.........

things were equally blue for the Lyonesse........

has our harbour master avail himself of a new high-speed harbour patrol boat to chase those errant swimmers, divers and surfers?.......

ice heads for a beamer........

just clearing her lungs.......

looks like it's going to be another sultry day in the Bay.