Strong NNE winds push scudding clouds over the harbour as a new set of shoes make their way down the quay to a waiting beamer...
a man and his machine...
fishing almost to the top of the spring tide, the Stelissa...
and Silver Dawn put ashore plenty of hake......
handline fish were few and far between owing to the inclement weather over the weekend...
in addition to the net caught hake the Revival, the first Scottish prawn boat to visit this year landed their whitefish for auction...
which helped the range of fish available to this morning's buyers like these beam trawl monk tails...
scallops...
John Dory...
and octopi...
as is common practice with the Scottish boats, the Revival landed her monk head-on...
Spectrum 4, windfarm service vessel on passage...
if your beam trawl comes fast on wreckage and parts the warp, this is the size of the creep needed to pick it up, if luck is with you, you'll pick up the lost trawl up on the first pass, if not, it can be a tedious process...
for the previous boat of the same name and number, a regular visitor for the short langoustine season over the last five years...
the continuing offshore NNE breeze sends the local gull population wheeling off the gaps...
and surrounds the Mount with a sea of white horses.