Late Thursday evening saw the Ajax back in town after her refit - looking very spruce indeed!..
Rowse's latest crabber to join the fleet, Francesca...
a juvenile black backed, it will be interesting to see just how many birds there are in the harbour next year after bird-flu ravaged the local gull population...
first light at high water and the fleet is ablaze...
most of this morning's fish came from two beam trawl landings...
along with a good run of mackerel from the smallest boats from around the area that supply Newlyn with handline caught fish...
the top team on the case this morning...
it was fish from the Cornishman...
and St Georges that supplied the bulk of the auction with fish like these Dover sole...
megrim...
lemons...
ray...
cracking tub gurnard...
a pair of greater weavers...
beautiful turbot...
and bass...
anyone would think there wasn't a market out there for monk cheeks and livers, untouched monk heads all going for pot bait...
a fine Mediterranean octopus...
red mullet...
and john Dory topped off the quality end of things...
while this meaty conger...
and cod provide the flavour for some...
the doleful eyed ray...
there was also a good supply of prime brill...
and a few boxes of the chippy's favourite, whiting...
and this beauty, one of the largest plaice ever landed on the market for many years...
down the quay, the working deck of a crabber...
after a month long refit it's time to put all the hake nets back aboard the Ajax...
and after a six months major refit including a new Caterpillar engine skipper Mike is chomping at the bit to get away and get the first haul in...
but before then it's a case of slipping out from inside the Karen N...
under the watchful eye of Stevenson's fleet manger Abby...
it's a tight squeeze when air is in short supply...
but with assistant harbourmaster Roger supervising what can go wrong...
heading back in, the Karen N...
heading back out, the crabber Emma Louise...
time to take ice and fuel for her first post-refit trip....
a timelapse of the early morning action.
