Picture postcard morning after last night's display of the Aurora Borealis...
and these were just some of the huge Mediterranean octopus that are currently being landed by the inshore crabbers...
the weekend also saw a few more boxes of Mounts Bay mackerel coming ashore...
while signs of summer belie the water temperature and John Dory are beginning to appear in greater numbers...
while lemons...
brill...
and Dovers top up the grossings for the inshore boats...
visiting Scottish prawn boat Revival put her white fish ashore for this morning's market...
her landing included megrim sole...
Dory...
conger...
hake...
and head-on monk...
Tom managed a few more lemons...
all of three cod which is just as well given the size of the quota available...
to make up his weekend trip...
topped off by plenty of ray wings...
bass seem to be everywhere for the boats at the moment...
another day haul trip...
as the tide drops away the netters set sail...
watch out watch out there are cuttles about!..
crabbers consume more bait than the boats can land...
the Spirited Lady III tows the Our Frankie Shan up the harbour...
before nudging her to a quay berth after the crankshaft packed in...
waiting on the quay is a new Volvo Penta and genset ready and waiting for Russel and the boys from Penwith Marine to do their thing...
he's back again treading water waiting expectantly for someone to donate him some breakfast...
more cuttle traps...
with no main engine its down to boy-power not horsepower...
end of days for these tired old girls...
the Lisa was the only transom stern beamer in the fleet...
and the Algrie, PZ 199 was one of the original trio of ex-Dutch steel beamers that Stevensons bought...
it's always good to see some punt action, young Nigel heading in with 17.5 kg of mackerel for his morning's work...
and there's more to come...
retired he may be but there's no keeping Roger away from the quay is there?...
Cod is all smiles having juts put ashore nearly 30 kg of mackerel for his morning's efforts...
then the two of them put the world to rights, though i'm guessing there are ears burning in the MMO, MCA and more, just don't mention DTI, medical certificates or VMS...
last, but not least, time to welcome the latest recruit to the fleet, young Will Roberts tidying up the good ship, Layla May after putting his mackerel ashore - it'll be a few years yet before he joins in the slightly more cynical seat at the top of the pontoon steps to chew the fat!
