Saturday squalls

The money-bag - one cod, end all ready to be stitched back on to the stocking of the trawl...

BF432 Orion, another member of the visiting Scottish prawn trawler fleet in Newlyn between trips...

while over on the New quay, the @Nereus172 gives her twin trawl cod-ends a washing in the harbour...

which inevitably causes any number of disputes amongst the local gull population...

pallets of packaging wait on the quay while the boat unloads its trip...

of frozen at sea langoustine...

which are weighed, graded and frozen while the boat fishes 24/7...

and then on landing go straight to refrigerated transport...

with each box's destination marked...

the real McKay set to cart them away...

Fladda Maid (ex-Crystal Sea II) and her twin-rig prawn trawl...

two more visiting trawlers from further round the Cornish coast...

on survey, off duty...

the genuine article, lined up for landing...

bow shot of the Orion on the North quay...

probably better you can't see so well astern of you sometimes...

all set for a day on the pots...

good to see another young fisherman taken to sea...

on the Mousehole boat...

over in Penzance wet dock the Scilly supply boat, Gry Maritha's replacement is being brought up to standard...

moves to make the lives of queuing customers more comfortable in case of showers for the IoS Steamship Company...

just a few feet longer than the ex-icebreaker yacht conversion...

the Mali Rose arrived a few days ago...

her slab sides...

and welded plating construction...

and rather blunt nose allude to purpose rather than the aesthetics of many ships at sea...

the Karen, nearing the end of her annual refit...

a Falmouth registered classic...

Cadgwith crabber, the Minerva...

nothing, not what you want to see in the Dry Dock...

the old Trinity House buoy service building.

First #FishyFriday in May!

Big clue as to which fish market this is...

and here are the boats landing this morning...

megrims aplenty from both the beam trawlers and the visiting prawn boats who are landing their whitefish to the market...

with his first chance to fish away west of the Scillys, Roger on the Imogen III has made a solid landing of his favourite summertime fish, John Dory...

and a handful or cracking red mullet thrown in for good measure, just look at the quality of Roger's fish......

Scottish boats land their monk whole...

checking out the results of one handliner's early morning haul of mackerel...

the fish are flighty and elusive this week making them hard to catch...

Don picked away good box of tub gurnards for his week at sea...

the almost prehistoric tail of a ray...

plaice aplenty...

builders bags have become a gosdsend for small and larger boats working nets...

allowing punt men like Barry to get on with the job more quickly and efficiently...

new crab pots still go aboard three at a time on the Girl Pamela though...

the business end of the latest Scottish prawner to join the fleet...

taking shape...

the stern of the Galilee is looking neat...

while the William now sports her reconditioned derricks and mast...

prawners, Solstice...

Shekinah...

and Nereus..

joined by the Astoria and Bracoden...

which was prefviously the old Solstice - many steel boats have their original names made in steel letters and welded to the bow...

which means they have to becovered over rather than burnt off when re-named...

or just painted over like the Shekinah ex-Ben Arkle...

waiting for the tide to drop to ciontinue the antifouling work on the hull...

away to sea for the Prospector...

some classic artwork coming up for auction Lane's, though the boats look Breton rather than Cornish...

unlike the luggers in this piece.