Busy weekend and a busy working deck on the new Admiraal Gordon...
every generation of fishing boat increases in beam and draught and overall tonnage over pervious vessels of similar length, two of these sub-20m boats draw as much as the port's biggest 40m beamer......
big tides add extra strain on gear and the chances of things going wrong for boats working bottom gear...
Monday morning sees a bright start to the day, just as well as looking at the forecast we've ten days of rain ahead...
first time landing from the Crystal Sea on the market this morning...
plenty of whiting...
and haddock for the buyers...
to go with the monk...
lemons...
and Dovers from the Enterprise...
tails from the netter Ocean Pride...
and plenty of inshore fish from the trawl fleet...
like these ray...
meanwhile, the last of the netters to land hake for the tide included the Britannia V...
Silver Dawn...
and Ocean Pride...
plenty of good looking reds from the big boat...
some proper git ling...
and a few early season turbot...
not many of these fine fish found their way ashore as the weather kept all but a few of the punts tied up...
more mixed fish...
from the bigger boats...
with some cracking haddock from the Ocean Pride...
and big whiting...