Images from around the harbour

Visitors must often wonder why some fishing boats provide a chair on the deck, the clue is in the nicking plate in front, as any crabber will tell.....
feeling more like Spring after the sunniest February on record slips into March....
trawled up from the deep, probably from a Spanish boat, Rioja maybe?........
this is what a 40 gallon drum looks like after it has been rolling around on the seabed for a while!......
the Caroline basks in the early morning sunshine....
even the doubled port side lights are aglow....

neat stencil job....over in the Ripple's production yard, her spars are beginning to take shape.

Britannia V rules the waves...

Britannia V makes her way down the harbour, half way through the tide, its the dead of the neaps on Saturday...
Over on the slip, the ABS now has some anti-fouling on her bottom....
The Mission's flag responds to an increasingly strong Sou'Westerly breeze......
looks like the harbour swans are keeping Arnie and the boys on the Nellie company while they go through the gear.

Missing gantry

In preparation for a vivier, the cut-out section in the hull of the ABS can clearly be seen.......
while the LIsa has had her 'H' frame gantry removed, the fishroom has a huge dryer pumping air to dry it out.....
starboard nav light from which boat?......
chilled transport is not only used for fish but local veg too!

Cesca through the gaps for the last time sails for Milford

Ex Newlyn crabber Matthew Harvey made the local Scarborough news recently with this rather exuberant entry to the port under ecort from the inshore lifeboat - a vivid illustration of the difference between seas generated by wind on the Esat coast rather than those seas experienced in the Western Approaches that have travelled the breadth of the Atlantic.

Special beamer delivery waits on the quayside...
as the good ship Ajax sails at 8am on Sunday morning for a 20 plus hour steam West....
Maverick from Ramsgate is in port.....
no sign of oil for the prospectors down the quay.....
over on the slip, work is progressing creating a vivier aboard the ABS...
with the stanchions in the old fishroom clearly visible through the hull plating....
the remaining woodwork is taking shape for the Ripple....
with some deft work on show.......
just off the bow.....
good to see Tristan aboard the Silver Dawn putting his back into moving the ice chute!

Trawlerman's rash

another use for a green team fish box.....
the Nowell's fleet in tier.....
Ajax takes ice ready for the off early tomorrow morning
gas bottles at the ready to destroy the JTS....
last day in port for the Cesca before .......
she heads round the corner and up to Milford....
boxes of Mor Kis left for bait
and boxes that go back aboard the Ajax...
these are not the hands that do dishes...
these, a Trawlerman's hand, with a couple of scratches......
years of graft.....
and some with a case of, 'Trawlerman's rash'.

Whats the connection between the George Johannes and the Cesca?

Like a scene reminiscent of Hitchcock's, The Birds hundreds of starlings head for an unusual roosting spot every evening underneath the Buccaneer Shell Shop outside Penzance wet dock. Observant boat watchers will have spotted the boat in the shot is the Rowse family's ex-crabber Stereden va Bro, gutted by fire several years ago and now rebuilt as a classic sail boat....
in a flat calm, a heavy swell in the harbour - a scene you won't get on the East coast...Fresh & Freeze Cornish Sardine insulated tubs wait alongside the transport.....
ahead of the ChloeT, the George Johannes has both sets of gear in the air....
and by the look of the the twine and dolly rope waiting on the quay, Nigel and the boys are not finished yet......
ahead of them, there is some serious 'reparations', as they say in France, going on aboard the Lisa Jacqueline....
though the painter obviously went home early....
the beamers make a dramatic show in the dusk.....
as do the shore lines.....
more unfinished painting, this time aboard the ChloeT...
last but not least, the answer to the question heading up the post is Milford - as in Milford Mike ex-skipper of the George Johannes and Milford, which is where TO50, the Cesca is bound on Sunday as she is off to a new owner and home!
Not good news for Lisa from London who is a big fan of the Cesca!
What will replace her in the Rowse fleet?

Nellie the beamer

taken in almost the same position as the day she took ice for the start of the last trip, the CKS makes her way back to her berth....
as the sun goes down, young Dan gets a lesson in handlining for mackerel at the back of the quay....
aboard the Nellie there's a yarn with Arnie in the stern
and some very neat masonry work being carried out by the pilot's office...
not a breath tonight which will make the sardine boats happy...
some shop-fitting on the corner by the bridge underway... and a little light study along the prom.