Dodging in a 10m swell 35 miles north of Lands End.

 

The continuing poor weather has forced the biggest boat in the Newlyn fleet to take a break from fishing and dodge...

some 30 miles north of Lands End...

In the bottom left had corner of the screen, the echo sounder records a depth of between 70 and 80m, a 10m swell as each wave passes under the boat. Those Dover soles are going to be expensive come this weekend!

Wild night of windy weather off Cornwall.

You the weather must be poor when you see the two big stern trawlers, Wiron 6 and Wiron 5 alongside a couple of french boats dodging in the lee provided by the Isles of Scilly...

even the weather buoy south of Plymouth harbour is showing close to 40 knot winds at 6am this morning...

while wind data from the Sevenstones Lightship has only just started responding again and is now headed for 50 knots, when an area of low pressure passes over the south west, the barometric pressure decreases and the wind increases...

as the WindyTV weather animation shows, the worst is about to pass...

just as well with 45knot winds indicated (that's around 50mph) which is keeping all the Newlyn fleet safely tucked up in the harbour - gusts up to 60mph have been reported al over the west of Cornwall...

not so lucky are these guys, 19 Breton trawlers and crabbers all still fishing or dodging - some of whom are east side of the Lizard between Falmouth and the Dodman Point which helps to cut down rise and fall of the heavy westerly Atlantic swell...

not so many years ago, Newlyn and other Cornish ports would be full of these hardy Breton trawlermen in their then slightly smaller (18m) boats - but it seems these days that the extra 3 or 4m in length many of their boats now have makes all the difference between fishing or dodging in poor weather and having to make for a port of refuge!

Mid-week market in Newlyn

Black as the night sky outside, tons of cuttles once again fill the market floor from both the the beam, trawlers that landed this morning...

so the amount of whitefish was much less than normal...

with just a few boxes or even just fish of each species...

with Dovers being amongst the most plentiful...

before being pulled away quickly...

along with a handful of sardines...

some just need sorting...

while the bulk of the morning's landings...

need something bigger than a box hook to move them off the market floor...

getting ready to land alongside the market at high water...

the Karen of Ladram

surrounded by 400kg rubs cuttles

the buffs that mark the end of each tier of nets are stowed away aft ready for shootiung the gear back...

there's al;ways one willing to strike a nonchalant pose for the camera...

as the last of the KOL buffs are put away...

all part of providing, FISH FROM CORNWALL...

Emily, one of the passing scallopers in the harbour for weather...

along with a wind-farm service boat staying clear of the gale-force gusts that blasted the Cornsih coast throughout the night...

two of the big sardine boats wait for a break in the weather before they can fish again...

along with two of Rowse's crabbers...

later in the day, those intrepid skipper Alan with the Ajax and Sid with the Karen of Ladram...

steam quietly away from Newlyn - both hoping it will be a good deal more comfortable than it was steaming through the night to catch the market this morning!

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