Splice an eye

You can't beat a bit of line caught bass for breakfast from boat number 4!....
a one-off lonely shark languishes waiting for the auctioneer to ensure its destination....
part of a superb trip of brill and turbot (around £18 per kilo for the biggest fish) for the Padstow netter, Berlewen being auctioned by stand-in Robin Turner......
another view of the Berlewen's trip across the market width.....
Thursday evening sees the Intuition head for the gaps...
what the warp sees as it makes its way through the hanging block at the head of a derrick on a beamer - not all beamer derricks have such a subtle bend as this one though!......
double-purchase block with splicing the end eye in the background.....
as ever, the guys on the Cornishman provide a clourful scene as they work through her gear...
a few more turns needed in the end-splice - Portuguese style?...
the ice-works looks somewhat shrine-like with a trawl wrapped around the base...
despite the cold waters, the spiders are beginning to move for the inshore boats, Jake directs the lorry reversing along the market to pick up the fish...
with a fascinated audience, none too sure of the unusual looking spiders and lobsters...


weighing and sorting the Little Pearl's catch

a small welding job, courtesy of Penzance Dry Dock Company atop the wheelhouse of the St George.

Badcock gallery makes for an interesting diversion from the quayside

Starting today with a splash of colour passing the Swordfish and Co-Op....
and some more traditional transport artwork in the lorry turning area......
in Badcock's Gallery there are some interesting new faces to ponder....
while a set of gear waits on the quay to be put back aboard...
night-time passing gull on the wing....
at the same time, Pride of Cornwall heads off to chase the Cornish sardines, no sign of the new, big blue cat getting in amongst the fish yet.....

Inside a Portuguese vivier lorry

Jersey registered crabber, Pen Y Glas lands to a vivier lorry alongside the fish market......

if you are of a 'Curious Nature', then get along to the newly re-furbished Newlyn Orion Gallery and see their Spring show, running from today till the end of June....
aboard the classic sailboat Aurora, her 'rags' are being neatly stowed after a hard day's sail.....
two cod-ends wait on the quay to be stitched back on the trawls aboard the Sapphire....
the Twilght has relinquished her place on the slip to PZ999, Jannie En Klaas....
showing a bow wave, Katie Clare steams in through the gaps......
on the mini-'boatyard' at the end of the New Quay, another tosher prepares to get a bottom scrub and overhaul.....
landing to a waiting lorry from Trelawney Fish, the George Johannes puts ashore her catch.....

counting the bongos, each containing around 50kgs of fish, as they are hauled aboard the transport.... inside the vivier - both sides of the trailor are lined with stainless-steel tanks through which air is circulated keeping the shellfish alive and kicking on their long journey back to Portugal.....
this is maybe only the second time Portuguese company, Conchamar has taken fish direct from a boat in Newlyn.....
the crabs are taken aboard in 'bongos', made from heavy duty plastic storage drums cut in half - an excellent example of re-cycling in the fishing industry....
still more work on creating the new vivier tanks aboard the Emma Louise.....
up ahead for a bottom scrub, the Shiralee...

Harbour box spotted in new job

Spotted over in sunny St Ives at the weekend, a harbour box moonlighting in one of the most popular uses.....
here are three boxes doing their day-job as intended, there's a steady of flow of mackerel in the Bay at the moment, size mix not too bad it seems...
just gone midnight and back in port after 36 hours, skipper Roger on the deck of the Nantewan and mate Roger coming up from the fishroom.....
the Dom Bosco heads away from the market back to a quay berth...
while a few gery mullet wait to be auctioned on the Monday morning market.

Divers back to the mainland

Two old Sputniks and the Twilight are up ahead...
dive boat Evert Martje is back in port after a week over in Scilly...
heading back to Penzance Dock, the ex-MFV Rhos Na Rioch

More beamers in than out

Out in the Bay, George on the Chickadee heads back in to the harbour ahead of the Aaltje Adriante......
and then pushes her into berth....

work continues on the Calisha's gear....
as another beamer arrives, this time its the Trevessa IV......
you don't get better spiders than those from the punt men, like Chris Morley....
backs into their work, still hard at it on the Calisha and yet another use for those ubiquitous green boxes.....
nealry four foot of seaweed growth coming off the bow of the Ripple - after six months in the water it appears that tar is totally ineffective as an anti-fouling treatment for wooden hulls - still years ago many of these boats were drawn up on the beach and dried out often.....
view from the wheelhouse aft on the Seafood Cornwall Quality Award winning Nantewan just before the guys head off to sea...
the Nellie heads back in to land
brand new warps head off down the quay from the drum.