Too early for some.

Kettle of pitch used to seal a caulked deck........

looks like an early start is being made to clear the quay for the Fish Festival this year......

Helen Feiller Gallery, one of several in Newlyn......

just about to start the first sale of the morning on the market floor - something that will be a thing of the past in the new fish market planned as the fish will be available for inspection in cold storage while buyers will sit in a buying room at computer terminals bidding against remote buyers from all over Europe -

see a tour of the proposed new fish market here........

but not just yet.......

spic and span new premises for Harbour Hair Salon on the bridge.

Time to toast.

Fish handling.

Newlyn has excellent hi-speed transport links with the south coast ferry links, Plymouth, Poole and Weymouth.......

the new fish market with its properly planned fish handling system in temperature controlled conditions will mean an end to these practices - thank goodness for polystyrene boxes that were first introduced for megrim and hake in the early 1980s......
while being out in the sun is not so good for fish, Cornwall's biggest business needs all the sun it can get this season - the forecast looks good for the weekend - apprpriate beach gear available from the Newlyn Harbour Design Centre.......

the Trinity House support vessel Mair is back in town......
back in the water and looking very spruce, the Chicadee makes the Cornish Lass look like she's in need of a lick of paint now........
more good news - the Dry Dock has a new customer in Penzance.

In case you missed it, 'The Skipper' series - Episode 1

A laconic Roger sets the tone for the series first shown on BBc1.

The entire series of The Skipper is available.

Guilvinec photo blog

Across the water, our Breton cousins in Le Guilvinec also have a daily photo blog, with a number of contributers capturing the comings and goings of the port. Most, if not all the larger vessels that feature in the blog have taken shelter or visited Newlyn at some time over the years.

Amongst Newlyn fleet, ex-French boats, like the Keriolet used to visit Le Guilvinec and use the boat hoist on the Lechigat side of the river for major refits and main engine work. There has been talk of having a similar hoist facility created in Newlyn.

Can you help Yvonne ?

Here is a comment following the visit from the Corbeau des Mers and the celebartions of the Free French activites last week from a reader in Australia - (it will be helpful if Yvonne could publish her email address):

"Hallo, I am thrilled to discover this site. I live in Lismore, Australia. My father, Jean Kervroedan escaped in a fishing boat, the Dalch Mad, from Douarnenez and arrived at Newlyn in April 1943. There were I think 19 men on that boat, including a Canadian airman. My father passed away a year ago, and I am going to be visiting Douarnenez in August, but decided to also visit Penzance for a couple of days in the hope of finding further information for a book I'd like to write about my parents. I will be in the Newlyn area on the 24th and 25th August. If anyone responds to this post, perhaps we can get in touch.

Many thanks,
Yvonne Hartman"

Dalc'h Mad means 'hang on' - so this is one of things that doesn't translate easily. This may be the boat after the same family's boat mentioned in the comment above (Bihen like Behan in Irish Gallic means little)- there is another photo and story on the Free French web site of the vessel and story Yvonne mentioned. To get a rough translation of the story - highlight the text and copy (CTRL+C), go to the Google home page, More and select translate - paste (CTRL+V) the text copied.

Dalc'h Mad from a Breton blog.

In the market for some razors?

Too confusing!!.........
the humble gurnard has been elevated to high status indeed these days if Smarts are buying.....
not often seen on the market - ten boxes of razor clams - one of the advantages of the proposed new computer auction should be remote buyers who are able to access details on fish to be landed - specialist fish like these clams would stand a chance of making better money for the fisherman concerned......
a lone hake from the netter Ajax puts his head above the ice.......
just nudging her bow twoards the market to land brown crab.......
looks like the spares are lined up on the quay for Archie's boys to get overhauling the gear as the change beam sizes......
one of the Nowell family's boat Nellie, flies her red ensign at half-mast in readiness for Roger's funeral on Thursday.