All quiet on Wednesday's mid-week market.

With fine weather and neap tides almost all the fleet are at sea fishing...

 so just a handful of boats landed for this morning's mid-week market...

name this fish...

scallop season...

all eyes on the fish...

for some buyers only prime will do...

or line caught pollack...

can you put a name...

 to those silhouettes...

the auction done and dusted well before 7am...

three of the biggest sardine boats are all set for the season, last year he first shot was made on July 17th by the Asthore...

crystal clear Cornish waters...

and a harbour full of yachts...

including those on longer voyages...

only in Newlyn...

changing times, the Dolphin pub is now the Post office in Newlyn...

Welbeck, a new shop dedicated to all things for the home with a distinctly nautical air...

with many local touches...

to wet your appetite...

for all things fishy...

another classic restoration project is all but complete...

the Cadgwith boat, Minerva looking superb in Penzance dock...

while that well known Cornish boat...

Sapphire II nears completion of her refit...

unlike the super-yacht now a landmark of the dock for many years.

Star of the show - Rose of Argyll - a Loch Fyne skiff yacht.

One of the Sea, Salt & Sail's favourite visitors is the skiff, Rose of Argyll...

Unlike many boats these days she is clinker built...

on deck, a dozen smoked pollack, harking back to her days as the kind of boat that fished for herring in order to produce world famous Loch Fyne kippers

Rose Of Argyll by enquete2proximite

This short video starts with some fast action below decks as a final rib - still steaming - is fitted inside the hull.

Rose of Argyll is newer than many luggers.  She was built in Scotland and not in Cornwall. Her specific type is a Loch Fyne skiff. She is a replica of a herring boat from the early twentieth century. First sailed as a yacht, she was then abandoned in a garden in the Gulf of Morbihan Gulf in 1990. She was bought and restored and relaunched in 2009. 

Since then, her home port has been Douarnenez. The boat navigates only under sail and port manoeuvres have to be carried out by rowing and sculling because she has no engine.

A little bit of the East coast comes to visit!

White fish from one local beam trawler, prawn trawler and visiting beam trawler...

enough to keep the buyers happy...

and more than enough to keep Mike Warner, aka @eastcoastavocet happy on his guided tour of the market this morning...

thrown in for good measure, some Cornish hake...

and even a few witches...

from these boats...

two of the biggest hitters in Cornish fish...

almost ready now that the fish pump deck gear has been installed...

trawling tales, Brackan and the boys cut out a huge section of wing...

with a bunch of blackbacks forever in attendance...

good to see a Looe man weaving wonders with his mending needle, not a four-legger in sight!...

which should see the trawl back aboard the Spirited Lady soon enough...

another batch of yachts all set to sail.

Mousehole Sea, Salts & Sail Festival 2016

Click to see a gallery of images from the festival on Sunday.

"I travel all over the world for my photographic work, but there are few experiences that compare to the Sea Salts and Sail festival held every two years in Mousehole. To watch as the harbour slowly fills with wooden boats is almost akin to time travel. It reminds me of the old sepia postcards showing the Mousehole fleet of fishing luggers lying abreast, hauling canvas and pulling on cordage. The sights, sounds, and smells all mingling to evoke a very different and romantic era. It is a photographer’s dream. When the boats leave to race in the Bay, with St Michael’s Mount in the near distance, it sends a shock of excitement through even the most hardened land lubber. This serves to remind me of the rich maritime heritage of the village I now call home" 

Paul Masset, Photographer.

Newlyn's new boat.

While poor visibility might keep many sailboats in the harbour...

it is business as usual for the fishing fleet as the Silver Dawn heads for the gaps at the start of another netting trip...

on the other side of the quay, the port's newest - and by far biggest - Cornish sardine ring netter arrived this morning...

sporting some unusual features above the waterline...

she represents a new kind of vessel, not much longer than the Cygnus GM44, Ygraine which used to be considered a 'big boat' for her length, the new boat is huge by comparison...

as she floats well above her waterline as she has yet to be fitted out...

young Jeremy's boat is getting there...

it's all smiles from Andy and Tim this morning...

as blue is the in colour it seems...

from FalFish...

another job safely completed...

can you help Chris get a berth?

Cod fishing trials in the Clyde aboard the trawlers Atlas & Gleaner

A fine but foggy #FishyFriday finds the netting fleet looking forward to fishing again.

A very inshore #FishyFriday today - that meant with just the one beam trawler landing...

and five inshore trawlers the market was devoid of fish by 7:30am...

here, the visiting scalloper Manx Ranger lands her bags of scallops by the fish market...

bound away, the aptly named, Buoy's Toy...

after a week prawning on the Smalls ground, SW of Milford Haven - during which time the boat dumped huge quantities of haddock and whiting...

the prawn trawler Replenish makes what may well be her last landing in Newlyn before she heads out through the gaps for the last time this year for the Irish Sea...

for the Billy Rowney in port, it's just another short break between trips...

while today will see the netting fleet take ice and sail again...

summer brings a full house of trains to the westernmost railway station in Britain...

as the Scillonian III is all set to sail for the Scillys with the coaster, Arklow Beacon anchored in the Bay behind her.