Prime

One of the Manx Ranger's pelagic trawls on ther quay - without a footrope to give the trawl some obvious structure different coloured nylon is used to identify which wing or section is which when mending.... a good mix of prime fish on the market this morning, from the biggest and smallest in the fleet, here one of several boxes of monk tails from the beamer Billy Rowney......
not sure if Rose knows she has one of her boxes in Newlyn....
more prime with a collection of JDs.....
and a run of line pollack bear the mark of top quality 'line caught' tags.....
for some fish sorting and grading fish are still done manually.....

some move tooo quickly to be caught in action on film......

While the sun comes up

Both sets of gear on the Sapphire need end of trip repairs.....
the Fowey registered Manx Ranger with her midwater gear has arrived in the port.....
one side up, one down on the Sapphire.....

action on the deck under the watchful eye of skipper Mike Corin.

Take the bait

With hundreds of pots to put back in the water daily the Emma Louise needs every modification to speed the process and provide a safe working environment for her crew - here's the recently fitted innovative shooting 'chute' in the starboard sidedeck....
there's still solid bass fishing around the Runnelstone for the cove boats - when they can get there - Matt Rogers' aboard PZ 631, the Penver, picked away a good shot.....
with the start of a new week the sardine boats had free reign with no quota yet so FalFish are being kept busy picking up the nights work....
there were a few cuttles around for the beamer George Johannes....
while the Trevssa managed to land a solitary box of Dublin Bay prawns, on many boats I'm sure the guys aboard would have seen a prawn sandwich or two during the trip....
400Kg tubs of sardines fill the wagon.......
Sam from CEFAS continues the monitoring of crab growth off the Cornish coast, a sample of crabs, here from the Dom Bosco, are measured and weighed at regular intervals which will allow the number crunchers back at CEFAS to calculate annual growth patterns year on year.....
at the same time, frozen gurnards used to bait the pots go aboard the Dom Bosco.

Of pastels and painters

PZ999, the Jannie en Klaas has featured in the work of a series of local artists - mainly thanks to her having been laid up in the same berth for some time, she was the subject of a study by Neil Pinkett recently shown at the Beside the Wave Gallery, Falmouth......
a few lucky local artists get to work in the old Stanhope Forbe's studio in the Meadows up Paul Hill, even with the amount of light brought into the studio by the newly restored window there's nothing like working 'en plein' as members of the Newlyn School enjoyed....
so, on a sunny Sunday, with pastels to hand the Jannie is once more committed to paper....
with Helen Feiler, Newlyn art gallery owner also enjoying the chance to capture an element of the harbour in detail.....
over in Penzance wet dock, an aspiring sea captain looks skywards towards the top gallant of the Ar Bageergan.....
with a settled spell of weather the local sailing club has three classes of boat on the water.....
as they make good use of a fresh nor'westerly breeze......
to round the marks on a triangular course set by the race boat.

First time on the slip

The Globetrotter wagon was late getting away on Friday evening.....
With the work finished in Tresco, the barge and tug are back in Penzance on passage.....
catch the Winter exhibitions at the Newlyn Gallery, open till the endd of January 2009.....
the new wheelhouse on this conversion is a solid looking affair......

up on the slip for the first time, Plymouth research vessel, Plymouth Quest.

11 and 28 years on 'Tom' looks out for them

On a gray day: During Remembrance week it's not only the fallen who are called to mind; in 1997 somewhere between the 11 & 15th November, the Margaretha Maria was lost with all hands 50 miles South West of the Lizard, seventeen years before that on the 14th the Pietje Antje went down in poor weather with the loss of three men, five survived.

Whelks ahoy

A sign of the times, Newlyn's Pizza Patio tempts the tastebuds with a special offer, who could resist?......
Cornish sardines, the Resolute's night's work stand on the quay waiting for the Ocean Fish transport to turn up and collect......
120mm mesh set on the bar on the footrope of this trawl, the boys won't be gutting many stickers in the cod end on this boat!
dozens of whelk pots alongside the New Dawn....
professing to be the countries first green taxi company, biotravel's shuttle waits for its customers in the harbour car park this morning....
spotted on the dockside in Penzance this 3-drum winch....
with the boats keen to support keeping the Atlantic ocean clean here's the usual mix of net and Spanish long-lining gear waits on the quay to go to the skip