A Stork is airborn!

The crane driver from arrives to check all is prepared for the main engine lift out.
The main engine is ready to go!
In the meantime, Terry continues to cut the Bryan D down to deck level.
It's a family affair - an expectant crowd wait patiently for the crane to show.
Meanwhile young Matthew has been drafted in - the Bryan D's wheelhouse deck timbers - as good as new.
With light flashing the crane arrives....
and prepared for lifting.
Mav watches as one skip is dropped on the deck.
The for'ard chains are made fast to the engine.
Hard hats are donned....
and out the Stork comes...
across the deck....
across the quay....lined up ready to....

sit on blocks...
before shifting up the quay...
before the crane plays catch-up...
the engine un-hitched.....
crankcase view....
the crane driver leaps into action again...
view from the crane cab as Clive hitches up the engine for the next shift up the quay
AC Removals and Storage provided the crane hire on 01736 787268 or 07773 330302while Clive and Mav and helped finish the job with an interesting little dance routine...
Mav's boys are dwarfed by the enormous Stork main engine!

Plenty of sun and fish at start of the week.

Summer dogfish from the CKS.

Good supplies of small mackerel hit the market this morning - over 120Kg here in 4 boxes!
Little Pearl has a good shot of turbot in her landing this morning.

Cuttles make their way to the cold store.

On Saturday - Run for the Sun? no sign of it in Newlyn!

Next day in the sunshine, a handful of mackerel men put in a mornings work despite the fresh offshore breeze...
Dennis Pascoe, father of Little Pearl's David Pascoe, lands four boxes of mackerel - what else would you do when you went past being eligible for a free bus pass back in the nineties!
How fresh?, TREVESSA IV smashed a wheelhouse window steaming in on Saturday evening.
New warps ready for the Algrie.
Boy Brax sporting her mackerel stripper heads out through the gaps.
Billy Rowney gets some assisstance to go back in tier.
Through low cloud and lashing rain, deckhands on the Intuition make the fenders ready as they enter the gaps .
Jake, on Go for It at the fish market.
Baskets blow in the wind and rain on the deck of a beamer.

Cornwall Sea Fisheries, St Piran steams out on duty

Black-back gull gets greedy with a whole crab!
Looks comfortable.
St Piran steams away on patrol.
View from the driving seat.
With the gearbox in bits on the deck preparations are being made for the main engne to come out on Tuesday evening. However, where there's smoke there's .......Terry hard at it!

Now he's mastered the art of right-handed threads, Clive can now change the gas bottles!

Busy enough, but traditionally Wednesday's are not the best day for the export market!

You saw her steaming in on last night's blog - here are some of Harvest reaper's John Dorys!
Top quality line caught Bass from the Blythe Spirit.......
...iced and labelled.
Stevenson's Lisa Jacqueline and Jannie En Klaas both had good trips of fish on the market this morning