Fire Safety Day in Newlyn, July 3rd.

A Fire Safety Day is being held in Newlyn on Thursday July, 3 aimed at decked fishing vessels under 16.5 meters.

This is a joint initiative by the Cornwall Fisheries Resource Centre (CFRC), MCA, MAIB, Cornwall Fire Brigade, Ocean Engineering (FIRE) Ltd, Newline Fuels and the RNLI.

St Georges through the gaps

Making her way in through the gaps, the St Georges....
landing to the side of a vivier lorry, the Dom Bosco....
two different cats at the end of the pontoons, the Explorer with a distinctly scandinavian heritage....
back up on the slip, the Emma Louise.....
and just to get any local anglers excited, there is a small shoal of enormous grey mullet cruising in the shallow waters of the harbour at the moment.

Watch the guys on the inshore trawler, Jessica Grace gut their last haul of fish, mainly haddock.

Newlyn Harbour 1928 - recognise these boats?

This photo, kindly sent in by Karen Seibert from Florida, USA shows three luggers in the foreground and a host of french crabbers inside Newlyn Harbour. The picture is dated 1928 - perhaps someone can help identify the local boats?.....
Built by Kittos of Porthleven 17 years before the previous photo and hoping to make a return to Nelwyn during the Fish Festival this year, the Girl Sybil. She is currently undergoing restoration up at Noss Marina, Dartmouth....
more information on the project is here and some previous history (search for Girl Sybil) here and here.......
several hundred small inshore boats like this were the mainstay of the local fleet in Mount's Bay at the height of the mackerel fishery back in the 1970s and early 80s.....
down the pontoon berths it seems Grimmy is still doing well with his handmade dog leads......
Defiant waits at the end of the New Quay.....

while across the harbour some of the laid up Stevenson fleet are back in tier.

Helston anglers brave the rain

Can't be long before the CarolH sails as a few more bundles of turbot gear go aboard......
flaming June it might not be, but the tuna boys on the Nova Spero are nearly rigged and keen to go....
the Jannie En Klaas is part way through her paint job and repairs....
two youngsters with the visiting Helston Anglers club head up the quay with a fish supper from Joules chip shop....
while the rest carry on fishing.....

this time it's Roz who catches yet another wrasse.....
the woodwork for the lugger, Ripple is nearing completion....
and the Lyonesse has a deck full of bins in readiness for those summery Cornish Sardines.

Granddaughter CoCo gets behind the camera

The ex-Rowse crabber Steren Va Bro, now a converted sailboat has ventured out of Penzance Dock at last.....
and also showing signs of nearing completion, Penzance's very own superyacht basking in the eveing sunshine....
them, there mermaids get everywhere......
here is the first photograph taken by granddaughter CoCo down the harbour...
seen here cuddling brother Monty....
classic London registered yacht, Duet enters the gaps.....
more reflections in the evening sun from the flags on the promenade....
there's a shooting hatch appeared in the net pound on the Harvest Reaper...
a sea of pots is still waiting on the quay for the Emma Louise....

the gulls take off in search of supper.

Classic yacht Duet finds a berth alongside the quay at high-water - looks like it was a tough day for the two girls in the bow!

Heroin addiction a common feature - fishermen tarred with the same brush

An inaccurate observation from the judiciary that, as David Stevens (Crystal Sea II) said, "demeans fishermen" provokes a flurry of comments in response to the sentencing of one
unfortunate individual.

So not No1, mendin' in the rain

Jake, always on hand to offer support and a friendly smile....
no sign of black gold yet - just mud it seems.....
so there's a new drilling machine been brought in now....
well it might be No1 in the charts but 'mending in the rain' is no fun, a trawlerman's curse the world over it seems.....
view from the AA on the slip through her Kort nozzle looking through the gaps....
back again, the Troon registered scalloper, George Lou (thank you Andrew for pointing that one out - it was late!) - no coincidence between the port of registration and that the owner's initials are TN for his fleet of boats?
the local BBC TV crew braved the weather from the inside of their traveling broadcast truck...
bow on to the AA.