Taking advantage of a big tide and more time dried out the John Dory king has a little maintenance to do alongside the market...
the big ship is back in port...
Cornish sardines look out! - the fleet is leaving the harbour, first off the Asthore...
followed by the Plymouth based, Charlotte Clare...
one of them there St Ives men heads down the steps...
and waits for Dan to get the Golden Harvest moving...
as the rest of the fleet join in the hunt...
with one hand on the tiller...
his thoughts might just go back to the time his hands were sheeting the mains'l during the 1994 Defi des Ports de Pêche - next year will be the 33rd such event - five days of intensive yacht racing with crews made up entirely of fishermen makes for some pretty intense competitions between fishing ports from all over Europe - maybe it's time the guys put together such a team again?..
not too sure what to make of this, maybe its so they can have two on watch?...
first sight of the new Rowse crabber just arrived from France...
she's an ex-netter...
so won't need quit so much work to convert to trawling...
though the presence of the young eyes in his case is missing...
all quiet on the lifeboat front tonight.