Six tonnes of ice please

With only 3 tonnes of ice taken at the start of the trip the Mor Breiz called in to Newlyn for enough ice to last for the rest of her 15 day trip...

though, the length of the trip can be dictated to by the kind and volume of fish caught...

a few hours later and she is back at sea with the first haul aboard...

a good haul of otoliths this morning...

plenty of monk tails up for auction this morning...

and some of those grandad cod...

with three planks sprung the Excellent sits peacefully on the bottom...

the Isles of Scilly has its own maritime paramedic service...

Tom on watch over a morning promising heavy cloud cover with the occasional burst of sunshine.

It's Foody Thursday and BBC R2's Simon Mayo Show - cooking Cornish hake

Simon and the team are joined on Foodie Thursday by resident GastroGnome, Nigel Barden, who has been provided with a fillet of hake from the Newlyn netter, Govenek of Ladram, skippered by Phil Mitchell.

Sun, sand sea and songs in St Ives

Flying the national flags, but where?...

this miner should be a clue...

"have you seen the old man..."...

as I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven cats, here's four of them...

shielded from the Cornish sunshine on their big day...

as the bride and groom get in their photo shoot on the beach...

it's a local affair, grub up at the best burger joint in Cornwall.

Sapphire sails Saturday sees an empty quay

Wooden gurdy, once seen aboard every mackerel tosher in Cornwall now taking pride of place in a local junk shop window...

In the bookshop next door is another view of the Mount...

three classic work boats huddle in the wet dock...

still undergoing a complete overhaul this looks like another example of an RASC (Royal Army Service Corps) 68ft Battlefield Class HSTTL - High Speed Target Towing Launch, built by British Power Boat Company... 

the same boat from the stern showing the heavy marine ply construction...

just out of the dry dock,the Defender ready for action with a gun mounted on her fore deck...

and another on her stern, she's waiting for sailing orders before heading off to chase latter-day pirates on the high seas...

pebbles and seaweed separated by the old causeway stones...

two wheels are good...

art house - Newlyn  Gallery...

heading out Through the Gaps...

the Sapphire drops her derricks before raising them 35˚ to keep the boat steady whilst steaming off to the grounds...

despite the completion of a major refit there's no sign of the Algrie going to sea just yet...

which this morning makes her the only boat in the Stevenson fleet to remain in port...

at 18 feet, one of the bigger tides of the year...

James Batten, boatbuilding repairs seeks work...

the fine weather has the punts back at sea again...

Cornish company Consols Oils provides power to the fleet...

and covers all of the county...

Michael Nowell winches fish from the beamer, Louisa N aboard a waiting lorry bound for Plymouth market...

the tall ship, Joanna Lucretia has a temporary berth in Newlyn....

while the port's resident old timer is up on the slip...

for some below the waterline repairs and maintenance...

forewarning of a tight squeeze up by the Fisherman's Arms...

current window display in the Framer's Gallery...

hake bargains opposite the fish market...

life beside the sea.

Out in the sun

Taking advantage of a sunny Saturday...

the ferryman returns from the Mount...

and visitors returning from the Scillies get an excellent view...

just before they touch down at the soon-to-be-closed Heliport...

Penzance's newest nautical facility is now open for business, a water centre with links to Truro and Penwith College...

ship's mascot and figurehead all in one...

the gunboat, Challenger waits for orders.

Auctioning fish from the Ajax