Half a century 'not out' for young Mr Black.....
a pigeon makes way for the Dom Bosco.....
two hands at sorting mackerel....
are better than one, a good run of fish for the handline boys this morning, let's hope the price is better than what the hake is making......
it seems that there are missing beams and derricks from the Sapphire to account for the lack of weight on the boat......
all the way from St Nazaire, Lord Jim II seems a very serious steel yacht......
There's a lot of ironwork missing from up for'ard on the Sapphire, hence her bow is high out of the water.....
Wednesday evening and the gillnetter Ben My Chree makes her way in through the gaps at the end of her trip.....
another Irish beamer joins the fleet....
Sam and Barry get the tubs back aboard the Lyonnesse.....
the biggest beam gear in the harbour hangs high over the end of the new quay...
as the Lyonnesse makes her way from the drying out berth in front of the harbour offices.....
the fresh breeze gives this yacht some practice in getting down the mainsail head to wind.....
Lyonnesse, biggest cat in the port is 'up on the hard' where her net transporter, specially deisgned to handle ring and purse nets, can clearly be seen.....
big beamer gear always attracts interest and today is no exception for the Billy Rowney as a couple of trippers gaze at around 8 tons of shackles and links suspended from the beam......
more of a cat and a half, a visiting multi-hull yacht on her pontoon berth soaks up the afternoon sun.....
another visiting Irish boat, WD211 sits on the new quay....
as Mike and the boys finish off a day's work on the gear......
another load of brown crab from the Pen Y Glas get winched aboard a waiting Portuguese vivier lorry....
never like this in my day! - these days trawl warps come ready marked - orange polypropylene strands are spliced between the lay of the warp, alternating one and two marks at a time so that the man on the winch can control how much warp has been shot and at an even speed from off the drums of the winch.....doing this job in Newlyn is awkward as the warp has to be payed out and measured down the quay under tension.....
plenty of hands on the quay to give young Edwin, single-handed tralwerman a hand landing....
putting a shoulder to the job, CKS swaps out a tiewr of nets for overhaul at the net loft...
fun and games with the iceworks this morning meant a delayed landing for the Cornish Sardine boys, a couple of patient gulls use the ice bins as vantage point while waiting for breakfast to appear...
last of the netter's to fill the western end of the fish market this morning, the Carol H's hake makes up part of a good trip, let's hope the prices have picked up - there are plenty of cheap supplies coming from the South Atlantic it seems......
breadkfast is served!..........
outside PZ100, the small workboat Jannekeke waits for stores....
In addition to the local boats there are always a few more hardy souls passing through Newlyn, here a French and German yacht exchange evening pleasantries.......
while over at Penzance, a rib from a visiting yacht passes by the Portree II who is engaged in some survey work in the harbour......
seems ribs are de-rigeur this eveing.......
last nettter to show yet again is the Carol H....
always a tricky boat to handle, a fin keel yacht gets to go aground inside Penzance harbour - time to get the kettle on and wait for the tide to turn and not panic....
remember the quality BBQ charcoal mentioned yesterday? here's why - here we are the following lunchtime with an aubergine wrapped up in foil and a few toms all bedded in the embers from the previous evening....
an hour later and the roasted toms and aubergine are ready for lunch!
Chloe T slowly steaming, she slips past the stationary tug Anglian Princess sitting safely at anchor......
it's a tight squeeze for the driver who must so look forward delivering to the Co-op every Saturday morning.....
not for girls - for you real men out there who use charcoal and not bottled gas - this IS the Rolls-Royce of charcoal - known local suppliers are Wyevale Garden Centres - takes at least an hour before the coals are white and ready to cook on - one helping will last you all night....
an interesting handmade weathervane is just one of the pieces on sale at Badcock Gallery's early summer showing.....
the Algrie has yet to get her prop back in place....
ex-local fishing vessel, the Meiz Creiz - a highly successful crabber in her day and sailed on for a season by none other than Newlyn's own harbour master, Andrew Munson, working mainly off the Scillies - is now a live-aboard in PZ wet dock....
if you fancy a sea-angling trip out on the wrecks then these are the guys to book with - Viking Charters or Bite Adventures...
David Pascoe's Little Pearl is having a major makeover with tanks being fitted for the Cornish Sardine season......
you work it out.........
good to see the Dry Dock still has jobs on its books, here the small coaster Boisterous is getting a hull job.....
half-water off the end of the North Quay and a measure of local water clarity - good news for the local divers....
early morning and the inshore day-hauling trawlers make their way out to the grounds.....
visiting Girl Debra shines in the early morning glow....
