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Saturday 18 September 2010

RNLI lifeboat Ivan Ellen is kept busy but not the only boat to rescue vessels in trouble.

 There's a mix of fresh and block frozen bait going aboard the crabber Emma Louise.......
 the chaps aboard the privately owned Bristol based Douglas Currie get busy scrubbing down the deck under careful scrutiny.....
 Trawler Wars star currently undergoing a makeover.....
 the low sun at this time of year picks out the flags on the prom in the evenings......
 in a busy week that saw several big tow jobs, three Bretons and their boat which now sports a replacement mast of sorts, made it as far as Newlyn eventually under tow from the Ivan Ellen......
 the classic boat Ruth, star of several films, suffered a serious main engine problem while on passage, at the same time, the Danmar was returning from Mevagissey after towing the ex-Newlyn netter Huers to her new home, answered the Ruth's distress call and towed her to Newlyn where she awaits moving on to Penzance wet dock.......
 plastic punt picked out in the morning light.......
 not one to miss out on things, it seems even John Lambourn's Ripple entered the Ivan Ellen's log book as another tow job for the busy station.......
 a tow of different sorts, George uses the W&S workboat Chickadee to pull the bow of the James R H away from the quay so she can get to sea......
 meanwhile, the port side derrick gets the heat treatment......
 from the welding team.......
never a dull moment in the Star Inn it seems.

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