New York bound.

The world's most stately liner makes her way south side of the Scillies - destination New York - always a treat for those at sea who see her.

Tug fest.

Here we the Orkneys.......
but there's still a hug list of jobs to do aboard the Severn Sea........
showing her unusual cut away stern.......
the waterline seems to be a little straighter here......
the Courage makes it the fourth tug in town tonight.....
looking down the derrick of that sole boat......
quick meal, pan fired salmon steaks and chinese veg......
before enjoying the firework display......
best viewed from the back......
of St Mary's Church overlooking the pool and fair.

Ouch!

Multiple fines and not a soul in Court shows any soul when the soles are caught where they shouldn't be!

Fillet a mackerel this weekend

After the short advert at the start - in case you wonder where the filleting has gone - watch chef James Martin on the quayside in Concarneau fillet some fresh mackerel.

Mackerel and sunshine.

While the sun continues to bless Mount's Bay with its presence there's some interesting reading for the mackerel boys to be had in a quiet moment while the fish aren't chewing - this comes from a journal published 100 years ago entitled "Mackerel and Sunshine" by E. J. Allen.

In his paper on “Plankton Studies in Eelation to the Western Mackerel Fishery,” in the last number of this Journal (Vol. VIII., p. 269), Bullen shows that for the years 1903–1907 there appears to be a correlation between the number of mackerel taken during May and the amount of Copepod plankton, upon which the mackerel feed, taken in the neighbourhood of the mackerel fishing grounds during the same month.

E. J. Allen (1909). Mackerel and Sunshine. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (New Series),
8 , pp 394-406
doi:10.1017/S0025315400073665

Would we know what Copepod plankton looked like if seen today?

This year's Cornish Sardine season gets underway.

Not many times the dry dock gets to host a yacht......
as the boats begin to assemble for Golowan's maritime celebrations this weekend, football notwithstanding on Sunday.......

back on Newlyn fish market here's just the sort of fish that Prosenjit Bhattacharya from the Greenbank Hotel, Falmouth couldn't wait to get his hands on during his Newlyn visit with Seafood Cornwall at the helm this week....
maybe he'll cook up some new recipes for Cornish Soles.........

and as a further sign of the summery times, the langoustine appear in the big beamer's log book.......

in the first days of the new season, why's top Cornish Sardine man Pete smiling with an empty tub?......

that's because he's just loaded the wagon with the rest of his night's work......

now it's time to wash down the Resolute, after a fruitless steam to the Eddystone of Plymouth earlier in the week only to find huge marks of tiny sardines the boys headed back to home waters and have been chasing marks of better quality fish north of the Wolf - years ago when the local boats fished with drift nets, Land's End Radio used to broadcast to busy shipping letting them know where the boats were - later, in the 1970s, many Scottish pursers had narrow escapes with passing traffic as they fished off Land's End chasing the huge shoals of mackerel ....

the short movie above harks back to a time when tea drinking and pipe smoking on the job were the norm and terms like ship-to-shore, wireless, big set, teleprinter, telex, link call, traffic route (TR) and "I haven't got anything today for you old man" were used by an small army of operatives whose faceless voices came to be readily recognised.........

things were equally blue for the Lyonesse........

has our harbour master avail himself of a new high-speed harbour patrol boat to chase those errant swimmers, divers and surfers?.......

ice heads for a beamer........

just clearing her lungs.......

looks like it's going to be another sultry day in the Bay.

Escapes from German Occupied France to Newlyn & Secret Operations from Cornwall to Occupied France 1940-1944 at the historic Benbow Pub, Penzance.

With the arrival of the Free French flotilla on Monday in Newlyn, after which the boats will move to Penzance Dock, comes an exhibition at the Admiral Benbow pub in Chapel Street, Penzance. The exhibition tells the story of escapes from occupied France during the Second World War when members of the Free French Army as De Gaulle called them made their way to Newlyn and Penzance. Some of their relatives will be around to add first hand experience to the stories.

To see the exhibition "Escapes from German Occupied France to Newlyn & Secret Operations from Cornwall to Occupied France 1940-1944 at the Admiral Benbow, Chapel Street, Penzance go upstairs and then go to the end of the bar.

Open daily, 11.00pm -5.00pm - ends 2.00pm on 1st July