With a few days to go...

Latest news today; yachting hero and adventurer, Pete Goss is building a replica of the Mystery to emulate the world's greatest small boat voyage over 150 years ago. The Spirit of Mystery, now being built at Millbrook south east Cornwall will be launched on Saturday 21 June 2008 - see the Pete Goss website for more details! At last this unique piece of Newlyn history will get the international acclaim which it deserves and acknowledge those 'iron men' in their wooden ship, Newlyn buccas one-and-all!

Part of the Christmas lights this year, a robin brings a little festive cheer across the harbour... and an enormous anchor graces the end of the fish market opposite the Swordfish Inn.... Tuesday's market sees a busy morning's selling, auctioneer Ian Oliver sells netter Sowenna's last trip of the year...

as the Jannie en Klaas makes a late entrance into port... not quite the £240 for one fish paid last Friday, but these turbot are still making good money... with monk tails still making nearly £20 a kilo... busy enough at the beamer end of the market....in a sea of festive green and red boxes... the James R H uses the tide to land across the fish market, saves on a lorry!

First Saturday market since the summer

Morlaix registered, Cap Frehel pays a seasonal visit...
Sapphire skipper (left) Mike Corin chews the fat with harbourmeister Andrew Munson
while a small welding job is carried out on her gear....

at the close of play for the last Saturday market this year, young Anthony Tonkin boxes and ices the last of the morning's ling - Anthony's thoughts have turned to what he would like for Xmas - how about a DVD of the family's boats the KimBill and Bonny Mary? Phil ;-)
down the other end the clear-up begins.....
always a splash of colour these days....
the new cod, some superb Cornish Pollack!

One week to go before the end of the year - sky high prices!

boxes with fish in were in short supply this morning - coming from from a couple of short beamer trips and a few bits - with monk making £16 per kilo and turbot a whopping £29 the boats will be wondering just how high prices will be next week!
meanwhile, the paint pots were retrieved from the William....
while the Mission was awash with local luminaries from the trade: ex skippers, Kenny Downing and Robert George (Mr Quality at Seafood Cornwall), Nathan de Rozarieux, 'Grimmy' Mike, new entrant to the catching sector and ex merchant, Nick Howell, the legendary Newlyn tenor 'Twinkle' (rumored to be in the next X factor) and Fishing News's very own Phil Lockley all sorting out the industy over fine mugs of tea....the Star looks prepared for tonights Harbour Lights switch-on

Another Dutchman in town

Z39 Zuiderzee from Zebrugge, first Dutch beamer in the port for a while.

Seas of spume at Cape Cornwall

With NW gusts up to 89mph recorded at Lands End there's a wave in the 'graveyard' at the back of Newlyn's North quay...
but it's not for the feint hearted, at lowish water - that's rocks dead ahead!
and a fight for every good wave and head away from the quay wall asap.....
and keep your eyes peeled
and paddle like hell!the harbour's christmas tree is just holding up in the strong winds...
later in the day, Through the Gaps visited Cape Cornwall and Botallack....
Cardinney Campsite sign indicating just how fresh the breeze is....
te old mine working taking the full force of the storm...
and anyone bound round the Longships heading North would get this sort of view from the wheelhouse!

Small Dutch invasion fleet in the Bay

Last of the few netters that braved the weeks appalling weather, Padstow netter , Berlewen puts her trip ashore to the market fridge...
as Royden ducks the morning's torrential rain....the Intuition makes her way in past a Dutch freezer trawler dodging in the Bay...
Dutch freezer SCH303 Ariadne at anchor....Breton chalutier Jacques de Thezac...
later in the afternoon, the Dom Bosco ends what must have been an uncomfortable day hauling pots off the Wolf
work is progressing well on the latest addition to the crabbing fleet..
not much doing on the slip, only a couple of bedraggled cormorants...
close up of the second Dutch freezer SCH 6 Alida astern of the Anglian Princess, both riding at anchor

Ready to go

With the entire fleet tied up (apart from the sheltering Breton boats that have now sailed) there's not much doing down the quay - a couple of hundred new pots wait on the quay to go aboard one of the port's crabbers.