Inspiration for sale.

Wooden dayboat Inspiration is for sale along with her fishing licence:

Vessel licence details:

5.6m by 2.17m
1.75 tonnes
17Kw
(19.8 VCU's in old money)


The engine is Petter PH2W with a spare Petter - only fresh water run and complete with starter motor.

In addition, the original engine will go with it - a Stuart Turner 8/11 hp complete with gearbox.

The boat was substantially rebuilt during 2007/8 including new oak engine beds, gunwhales, mast, shaft tube and propellor.

Fitted 2008, new radio, Simrad CP31 plotter and Koden CVS 118 Mk 2.

Sturdy and excellent handling dayboat. The winter paint up and maintenance is currently half way through completion.

For more details, contact Nick Howell :

M 07809 609 545

nick@pilchardworks.co.uk

Pirates are back in town for the British & Irish Cup!

Currie V The Pirates On Saturday – NOW AT PENZANCE

December 11th

Moved To The Mennaye Field Penzance

Kick Off 2pm

This is an ALL PAY GAME
No Advance tickets for this match
Tickets £10 Adults/Concessions


Includes entry to the covered stands on a first come first served basis.
Accompanied children under 16 admitted free.
The clubhouse and Travis Perkins marquee will be open to all before, during and after the game, refreshments including' Fesh Baked' Hot Warren's Pasties will be on sale.

The British and Irish Cup 2010-11 Pool 'A' opener away against Scottish Premiership side Currie RFC will now be at the Mennaye Field, Penzance, on Saturday, kick off 2pm.

Officials of Currie RFC advised the Cornish Pirates earlier this week that there was no prospect of their pitch near Edinburgh being playable this coming weekend, and following discussions they have agreed to fly to Cornwall to get the fixture played.

The cost to the Cornish Pirates to host the game will amount to £14,000, covering Currie's flight to Cornwall and an agreed share of the gate, so it is hoped that rugby followers in the county will rally and support the Pirates at this Saturday's game.

Currie RFC were Scottish Hydro Premier 1 Champions last season, the league has since split and they now compete in the top eight of what has been named a Scottish Premier A league, where they are currently placed in mid-table. Former Scotland 'A' player Ally Donaldson is their head coach, the Currie squad is littered with Scotland internationals at various levels, along with a number of other players from New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland. Kiwi full-back Hayden Abercrombie is a prolific points scorer who has played for North Harbour in the NPC.

Christmas market times for 2010.

It is anticipated that the last Market will be on Wednesday 22 December, 2010, and the first market for the New Year will be on 4 January, 2011.

Jack Frost pays Penzance a visit.

Must be cold, there's a frost on the prom! - almost unheard of for Penzance.......

apart from the Billy Rowney's trip there wasn't much fish on the market this morning......

this handful of reds would fetch much money though........

and so would these elusive mackerel, still in very short supply......

slime covered pollack of the highest quality.......

and a handful of boxes in the chiller were up for grabs.......

even the trawls left on the quay were frozen solid........

no doubt this year's tree will shortly become festooned.

St Ives' lifeboat picks up poorly French fisherman.

The St. Ives Lifeboat, The Princess Royal, yesterday went to the aid of a member of the crew of a French fishing trawler, Iroise from Concarneau.


The St. Ives Lifeboat Station received a call at 3.30 pm yesterday from the Launch Operations Manager of the Penlee Lifeboats to say that a French trawler, registered at Concarneau in Brittany (one of France’s largest fishing ports) had reported that a member of its crew was sick and in need of urgent medical attention. The trawler was some 40 miles off St. Ives but came into the bay where The Princess Royal, with Coxswain Tommy Cocking at the helm, rendezvoused with the vessel and effected the transfer of the crewman to the Lifeboat.


The sick seaman was safely taken to the St. Ives Lifeboat Station where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.

Whitehall gets the message - will Hugh's campaign help?

Debating fish ahead of EU quota negotiations - maybe the FishFight campaign will have helped concentrate minds on the true cost of the hugely wasteful current quota system.

Fresh baked anchovy dish.

Take a dozen or so fresh anchovies.......

head and split the belly with a small sharp knife and then, using the thumb slide it under the backbone.....

and lift away from the body........

to leave a clean fillet.......

chop fresh fennel, pine nuts, parsley and raisins.........

after soaking the fillets in a weak brine for 20 minutes, dry with kitchen paper........

add one layer skin side down and cover with the mix........

then add a layer belly side down.......

and sprinkle with breadcrumbs..........

chop a mix of your choice to add........

to the couscous (cover the couscous dish with foil)........

bake the fish for around 20 minutes at 180 and put the couscous in the oven for the last ten.