A St Ives painting story.

 On the back of a painting up for auction today in Penzance, the citation reads: "Return of the missingSt Ives fishing boat - after being 'lost' for three days on the East Coast of Ireland - sails lost and radio out of action".......

the artist's signature is hard to discern but appears to be that of Edith M Huxtan.......

one source from St Ives thinks this is the story of the  Lamorna (later the Castle Wraith) owned at the time by the Care family from St Ives. A surviving member of the crew from that incident is Chris 'Bish' Care who works in the net lofts at Porthmeor.



Currently work is well underway on the Porthmeor Renovation Project to the Sail Lofts on Porthmeor Beach, hopefully Bish will not have his net mending activities disturbed too much - an ongoing image gallery is viewable here - a Daily Telegraph article gives some background.......

here, Chris 'Bish' Care, net setter for several Newlyn and St Ives boats, talks about his work in one of the net lofts.