Sea Salts Sunday.

Enjoy a tour round Mousehole harbour early on Sunday morning as the crews of the visiting boats shake off the feathers of a Saturday night's festivities. Sea Salts and Sail founder Leon Pezzack must enjoy seeing the success of this, England's western-most festival of traditional sail and boats.

Kaite Powell - 21 today!

Quality warp for the St Georges to keep her at sea fishing the deep water.......
one warp installation kit........
taking and waiting for ice, time for the inshore trawlers to get away......
just in case she touches the bottom, the Harvest Reaper is taking a spare set of wheels......
waiting to go.......
Meadery Maid and stalwart of many a raft race makes it to 21 - look out Marazion Sailing Club tonight!

As reported in the Cornishman.

It seems the newly appointed harbour commissioners are being given a hard time from some - "New chiefs at harbour are blasted" - as reported and then commented on by the editor of the local paper, the Cornishman.

Despite a radical departure from previous practice - where commissioners' meetings were held in private, agendas and minutes almost impossible to get hold of - the new team have come under fire for excluding members of the public from all but the first fifteen minutes of meetings and the minutes are now freely available on the commissioners new web site

Given that eleven, including the chair and vice chair, of the new members have had to get up to speed at an alarming rate in order to get to grips with all that is at stake - with the new market proposals that have a deadline in August before the funding offer is withdrawn being one of many issues that need resolving - it might take a while for things to become even more transparent than they are already.

A look at this week's Fishing News, the industry's trade paper, has in in-depth article on Brixham's brand new fish market - the two ports match one another pretty closely in terms of income so it is not unreasonable to ask if Brixham can afford to invest £20 million pounds in modernising their fish market then surely Newlyn must be capable of finding matched funding to the tune of £1.2 million for its own £5 million pound project with ease? Currently, over £3 million pound's worth of fish from local boats is going away to Plymouth fish market - mainly because the boats feel they get a much better service from Plymouth - all of which will undoubtedly change if the Newlyn proposals go through.

Piracy in port.

"Mass piracies in bay, 50 fishermen, fishing trawlers looted"

Shades of the Newlyn Riots many thousand miles away - just as well the only pirates in this part of the world play rugby!

Muchos mackerel from God's country.

Just passing by, the Rosslare Severn class boat Donald and Barbara Broadhead........
Mr Perkes has gone one better than a personalised plate.......
stack 'em high, the St Ives' boys averaged around 100kg of medium mackerel a man last night......
so there's plenty of sorting to do this morning.......
obvioulsy there were some high spirits in the town last night.

A kind of bread, 112 miles South West of Land's End

The weather conditions are creating 'skip' where high frequency signbals are able to skip between the surface of the sea and thermal layers allowing radar and AIS to pick up targets at much greater disntance than normal - the Breton trawler Bara an Aod, one of the fleet of 'bread' boats (bara = bread) is showing up 112 miles off Land's End.

Sea, Salts & Sail Festival at Mousehole this weekend.

Newlyn does its bit to publicise the event......

and you can't miss this sign on the way to the village for the Sea, Salts & Sail festival.......

the Rosa is just one of many old working and sail boats expected at this year's festival.......

created to rival the art deco pool on Penzance Promenade, Mousehole has its own tidal swimming pool........

a feast of tanned sails is set...... just watch those slippery rocks.