Easter Monday.

 Twixt the masts, RMS Scillonian on her way to the Scillys......... 

 passes the TS Pelican of London and the Astrid.........

 while the Gry Maritha loads outside the wet dock as the dock gate is yet to be put back together successfully.......

 amongst other nauticalia, Steckfentsers of Chapel Street has a Danish flagged trawler model, the Esjberg for sale......

 same boat seen from the stern.......

 good to see one old sea dog wearing his Crewsaver buoyancy aid........

 and yet again picking are pretty slack this morning, literally a bucket of fish for some hands!.......

 one punt for sale........

 signs of a full set of new fenders for the port.......

 top turbot from the Sapphire make their way ashore.......

Gary the hand liner from St Ives.

Lamorna story update.

The recently discovered painting at the David Lay auction featured on the blog a few days ago has received some interesting feedback from various sources in St Ives - some suggesting that the boat in question may not be the Lamorna as referred to by the short note on the back of the work.........

Scanned advert courstesy of J McWilliams, St Ives.

John McWilliams has added this background information -

In the attached Lister Diesel advert from 1962, Skipper Willie Care, Bish's uncle, tells the story of them being caught out while lining in the Channel. The Lamorna SS 45 had no radio at the time so they didn't hear the forecast. Incidentally Willie used to complain that Listers never paid him a penny for this fulsome testimonial.

Chris Care's father John & two uncles Willie & George who owned the boat, were in her at the time of this 1962 storm.

The page (below) from Yachting World showing her plans, was published in 1955 when the Lamorna was built by Falmouth Boat Construction.

The painting by Edith Huxton Huxham is a French crabber, not a Cornish boat.

Chris Hibbert is quite right, the Lamorna was out here in the Channel, not off the coast of Ireland. He is also right that she went into Hayle, not St Ives...

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around that time the magazine Yachting Monthly published line drawings of the boat.

Half a box - and some had none!

Thin pickings for the mackerel men who ventured forth in the early ours of Easter Sunday morning......

with half a box reckoned to be the average per boat there were mute voices on the quay making light of the situation....... 

as a set of warps for a beamer makes its way down the quay.......

 looks like Keel Alley could do with the grass cutter's attentions.......

hopefully not too many will be seeking the attention of the Harbourside Physiotherapy clinic........

 a long haul for the Dutch company delivering gearbox parts for the My Lady Norma 1...........

 at anchor is the tall ship Astrid on passage to Liverpool........

 looks like work is underway to complete one of Penzance Dock's longer term residents......

while the Dry Dock company will be glad of some local trade with the Twilight and Algrie getting their hulls anti-fouled.......

still taking shape on the site of the old Cornwall Farmer's building, the Premier Inn type development sure impact on the trade for local guest houses.

Easter Newlyn fish market prices are OK.

Seems that Falmouth Bay was the place to be for the mackerel yesterday.......

a box of odds 'n sods from the L'Ogien's trip........

one of two big beamer trips on the market floor this morning.......

picked out by a shaft of early morning sunlight........

Man of the Sea, even life-long mackerel man Dennis Pascoe was on thin pickings this morning with many of the handline fleet returning empty handed after a 4 am start......

one man power is still the norm on the market floor as Ian hauls another pallet load of fish to the waiting transport.......

another set of faces to identify in the coming exhibition at the Centre on the 30th of April.......

jigging machine, one of the few aboard Newlyn boats, something that just hasn't caught on it seems.......

icing up time for the Prolific

years of wear showing on this pound board........

sailing time again for the Elizabeth N.........

Jake works away single-handed getting fresh gear aboard.......

fuel-up time for the Pollack kings aboard the Sea Spray........

where skipper Smith takes time out to pass on all that he knows about shooting digital.

Local fish at the Blue Snappa

Good to see the Blue Snappa in Penzance taking advantage of locally landed fish and putting the likes of hake and ling on the menu.

It's that kind of weather.

VessleTracker's AIS picks up a huge range of targets in the settled weather pattern this evening.  Large numbers of the targets to the west of the Scillys are French and Irish trawlers.

Monday's market.

Evidence of Royalist support in Penzance at Waves Cafe Bar........

 just what you don't want to see floating round in the Bay.........

 another big stern trawler from Lerwick, LK986, the Prolific lands her fish to the back of a lorry rather than put the fish on the market - still, at least the harbour earns 2.5% commission on the landing......

 on a big spring tide the fleet can easily be seen over the harbour wall.........

 and it makers landing for the punt men at high water easier too........

 the number of visiting yachts is a steady trickle now.......

 evidence of a hard life for a boat only a few years old........

 as well over 10 tons of fish goes ashore.........

 the numbers stack up for the mackerel men.......

 fine box of red mullet from the Billy Rowney.........

names that profile.