Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
Cap'n Keast, on harmonica, serenades visitors to this year's festival as they make their way over one of the old stone bridges that allow access to Newlyn... a visitor checks out the model of the orginal Mystery that is upstairs in the Mission's museum...
one of 100 local scouts on the gates that worked so hard on the day of the festival, a big thank you goes out to them for their continued support.... here's one of dozens of volunteers on the day with important jobs like handing out free festival programmes to visitors....
there were huge numbers this year helped by the dull start to the day - many seen here gathered in front of the sound stage listening to a range of local artists - from several sessions by soul band, Heart 'n Soul to the Rum and Shrub Shanty Men and, the much acclaimed, National Youth Champions, Camborne Youth Band - a star xylophone player featured amongst their number.... large audiences watched a rolling programme of fish cooking from Seafish - spider crab courtesy of WH Harvey & Sons..... outside, Dick Edes entertained a constant crowd with the art of withy pot making - catch Dick if you missed him at the Newquay Fish Festival in a few weeks time...... general view of the entertainment section.... some youngsters were able to make their own length of rope on the Falmouth National Maritime Museum's stand under the tutellage of their education staff.... Mithe Howell, from the Pilchard Works hands out samples for tasting - local producers sold or gave away huge quantities of fish and fish samples throughout the day - Seafoodandeatit had no problem shifting all their shellfush products including the whelks..... delicious aromas emanated from the pots on the Little Cornish Curry Company stand and attracted a constant stream of hungry punters.... always attracting the attention of kids and adults alike, the monk or anglerfish has a 'fishing rod' over its head to attract its supper as demonstrated here on the Responsible Fishing Scheme's stand courtesy of Drew Davis and crew... Crystal Sea II skipper and better half turn were kept busy prepping tasters on the Seafood Cornwall stand..... while the Cornish Sardine boys were out in force this year selling 1000s of grilled sardines in baps... Mervyn kept the kids amused with his 'mobile' school of dolphins playing alongside the boat.... later in the afternoon, fish merchant Robin Turner extracted huge sums of money for the Mission from visitors with his charismatic auctioneering style..... main event of the day, Keith Dixon, Mission Skipper blesses the Spirit of Mystery in front of a huge crowd.... with a few words from skipper, Pete Goss..... and when the sun eventually came out, hundreds soaked up the atmosphere outside the Dolphin and Swordfish pubs.
Harbour boys, unsung heroes of the festival get off to an early start.... while Nick Howell begins to set up what will be a display of largely pelagic fish this year - few boats landed during the week so it was not possible to get donated fish from the fleet as per normal.... Emma Rowse, matriach of Rowse Fishing assists with the addition of shellfish from their bpats.... just some of the companies who source their fish from Newlyn..... as ever, the Kipperman has put in an appearance... Shane brings the St Piran to her berth for the day over the top of the Spirit of Mystery..... a fine mini display of local fish from one of the exhibitors..... a favourite foody pub in Penzance sets up their stand to keep visitors fed... last minute checks by Sarah Henshall, Festival Co-ordinator before the gates open.
Just in case the visitors are caught short, Andy's Loos provide on Fish festival day..... looking back from the bowsprit of the Spirit of Mystery as she lays in berth alongside the lifeboat... skipper Pete Goss (2nd left) and crew: brother Andy (left), Pete's youngest son Eliot and Mark Maidment at the rear..... you just have to have at least one Scotch sponsor on any boat worth its salt, in this case Talisker have come up with the support..... down below immediately feels safe and secure with everything to hand making the most of the space that would have been the fishroom on the original boat... a piece of oak from the Victory plays a part of the galley.... while another piece from the Cutty Sark provides the top to the galley table locker.... and American side-loading stove complete with flue from a German U-Boat will provide cabin warmth in colder climes..... every part of the boat looks ship-shape and fit for purpose... on the stern the Cornish flag will fly for them as they re-create the worlds first trans-oceanic voyage.
Standing tall and ready for a suit of sails to hang aloft.... the Ripple is nearly ready to go.... but the rigging has yet to be completed - you can see where the expression "learning the ropes" comes from!
Crew from the visiting St Brieuc registered, Lecume des Jours, literally translated as Foam of Days - more accurately as Spindrift - return to the boat before taking ice.... John Lambourn, ably assissted by antipodean cousin Grant Collins, is about to see months of labour rewarded as the masts for the Ripple are rigged ready to be hoisted aloft and placed aboard the waiting boat....
further up the quay freshly painted pound boards dry in the welcome sun..... first aboard is the bowsprit...... steadied before moving, the foremast hangs in the air - it clocked just over three quaters of a ton on the cranes's load meter..... guided across the quay by Grant as the cranes swings the mast towards the bow of the boat... and placed over the deck while the alignment is checked...... watched, as ever in Newlyn, offerred plenty of vocal support by those on the quay, the mast is lowered to its final resting place.... guided down below..... where John is immediately keen to check that all is well..... before the final task of pitching the giant mortise and tenon joint is completed..... there follows a brief discussion with the man on the controls of the crane (AC Removals and Storage provided the crane hire on 01736 787268 or 07773 330302)as someone has forgotten to put a line on the strop - making it difficult to retrieve the strop once the mast is allowed to stand and chocked in place... she's beginning to look like a sailing vessel at last - and will undoubtedly will have Pete Goss aboard over the weekend to compare notes on this restoration project and his own re-build of the famous lugger Mystery - with which he intends to sail to Australia later this year. someone appears to have parked an old VW camper van at the end of the North Quay?
Cap'n Keast, on harmonica, serenades visitors to this year's festival as they make their way over one of the old stone bridges that allow access to Newlyn...
a visitor checks out the model of the orginal Mystery that is upstairs in the Mission's museum...
one of 100 local scouts on the gates that worked so hard on the day of the festival, a big thank you goes out to them for their continued support....
here's one of dozens of volunteers on the day with important jobs like handing out free festival programmes to visitors....
there were huge numbers this year helped by the dull start to the day - many seen here gathered in front of the sound stage listening to a range of local artists - from several sessions by soul band, Heart 'n Soul to the Rum and Shrub Shanty Men and, the much acclaimed, National Youth Champions, Camborne Youth Band - a star xylophone player featured amongst their number....
large audiences watched a rolling programme of fish cooking from Seafish - spider crab courtesy of WH Harvey & Sons.....
outside, Dick Edes entertained a constant crowd with the art of withy pot making - catch Dick if you missed him at the Newquay Fish Festival in a few weeks time......
general view of the entertainment section....
some youngsters were able to make their own length of rope on the Falmouth National Maritime Museum's stand under the tutellage of their education staff....
Mithe Howell, from the Pilchard Works hands out samples for tasting - local producers sold or gave away huge quantities of fish and fish samples throughout the day - Seafoodandeatit had no problem shifting all their shellfush products including the whelks.....
delicious aromas emanated from the pots on the Little Cornish Curry Company stand and attracted a constant stream of hungry punters....
always attracting the attention of kids and adults alike, the monk or anglerfish has a 'fishing rod' over its head to attract its supper as demonstrated here on the Responsible Fishing Scheme's stand courtesy of Drew Davis and crew...
Crystal Sea II skipper and better half turn were kept busy prepping tasters on the Seafood Cornwall stand.....
while the Cornish Sardine boys were out in force this year selling 1000s of grilled sardines in baps...
Mervyn kept the kids amused with his 'mobile' school of dolphins playing alongside the boat....
later in the afternoon, fish merchant Robin Turner extracted huge sums of money for the Mission from visitors with his charismatic auctioneering style.....
main event of the day, Keith Dixon, Mission Skipper blesses the Spirit of Mystery in front of a huge crowd....
with a few words from skipper, Pete Goss.....
and when the sun eventually came out, hundreds soaked up the atmosphere outside the Dolphin and Swordfish pubs.
