Day-hauling, landing at the market

The Sapphire is getting a new set of wheels on her beams...

on the deck of the Two Boys, Twinkle sets about gutting the last haul against the market after it freshened up quickly in the Bay...

seems there is plenty of haddock on the ground Nor'West of the Wolf still....

aboard the Shiralee, in a move to save fuel, Mr Page decided to target pollack with hand-lines for the day, a sure sign that fuel-price is now becoming a crisis for the industry as a whole and not just because it affects the bigger boats that burn thousands of pounds worth of fuel a day at sea.

La Conchee faut dix ton de glace

Parked up at Wherry Town on the prom, another colourful fish trailor.....
this time, refrigerated transport from SAL in Grimsby....

Harbour Master Andrew chews the fat briefly with Grimmy Mike over the rising cost of fuel....La Conchee from Guilvenec, Brittany on her way into the ice berth.....
opposite which lays the Emma Louise looking more like a crabber every day....

La Conchee taking ice.....

under the watchful eye of Andrew wearing his other hat, that of French Consulatein the area ...

meanwhile, astern of the ice berth, Twinkle and Tristan put the mended gear back aboard the Two Boys
down the end of the new Quay, a sea of derricks from the biggest of the WS&S fleet
out in the bay there is an increase in the amount of summer trade, a small tug and dredging barge are accompanied by a regular visiting dive boat.

Mr Pascoe heads out of the gaps

Late in the afternoon, one of the Pascoe fleet of punts heads out of the gaps...

there's a veritable feast of colour all round the port..

and enough to keep any Art student happy by way of natural shapes and patterns to study.....
all four colours of the WS fleet in the one shot
with the old-timer workhorse, Chickadee laying quietly in the evening sun.

Not very Spring like at present

Blown horizontal, a scrap of plastic tell-tale hints at the wind strength in Penzance wet dock.....
where the Gry Maritha is still undergoing repairs - Scilly will be desperate for those barrels of beer waiting on the quayside.....
as will the builders waiting for the sand to be delivered...

PD 235 Calisha is down on the scallops and won't be happy with the current weather conditions - dredges don't like any lift in the water....

time for a quick scrub and overhaul for Quentin's Sea Spirit
heading back to tier is the Crystal Sea......
after putting a fresh set of combination sweeps aboard.

A draft through the market

Visiting Peterhead scalloper, Calisha....
along Penzance Promenade, the only promenade in Cornwall, a local dog walker and dog dodge the spray.....
as a chilly wind whips its way through the fish market...

the boys on the Padstow netter, Berlewen get their fish into the back of the waiting transport.

Fresh , cold draft tonight

With a stiff sou'-easterly breeze blowing up the harbour, skipper David Stephens carefully puts the Crystal Sea into tier...

seems the Dom Bosco's paintwork has been suffering from the heavy weather she has been through this year.

Must have been in the stars

Not a steel hull in view down the entire length of the North Quay...
PZ 1202 Gemini Twins heads in through the gaps with the guys looking back over the stern in wonder and awe, but why? Well, a few lucky souls were able to witness one of those rare events that comes around every now and then when the sky is filled with flying pigs and certain stars align themselves in juxtaposition with the planets.......

when, out of the gloom and the heavy, forbidding clouds the Cornwall Sea Fisheries ship,  St Piran hurtles in through the gaps - Shane and the boys must have had a whip-round for some fuel to get the old girl out to sea, in a flat calm of course!