Jack Nowell - 18 today!

Jack Nowell is 18 today!

Enjoy the early action photo gallery here.

Newlyn's very own England playing rugby junior Jack Nowell turned 18 today and celebrated as befitting the son of a top Newlyn trawler skipper - a full English breakfast for him, his family and close friends in the Mission followed by a few, quiet beers in the world famous Swordfish Inn.


A big thank you to the staff in the Mission who did such a fantastic job feeding nearly thirty, family and, mostly rugby playing, student friends. With plenty of egg, bacon, hash browns, toast and tea inside them the party moved on over the road to the Swordfish where the party no doubt continued on into the evening - for some!

Sailing the Tectona - Plymouth Marine Network meeting.

On Thursday 14.4.2011 at 1830 at the Royal Plymouth Corinithian Yacht Club PL1 2NY, Maritime Plymouth's April networking meeting will be entitled SAIL PLYMOUTH and will feature 4 short talks about sail training activities locally, including "T.S. Tectona - Sail Training and its Value to Disadvantaged Persons."

Download the details for the talk here.

Do come along if you can!

Very much a red morning.

 That's the sorting and grading done on the market this morning........

 and a white surface is always sooooo tempting when your hands are black.......

 good run of quality fish from the big beamer........

as auctioneer Robin Turner holds court at the Western end of the market..........

Robin Turner, fish auctioneer in action......

 where there was a fine selection of JDs..........

 and even a box of monk roe for the connoisseur buyer.........

 red gurnards are red.........

 as is the Harvest Reaper seen here heading for fuel and ice........

and so are half the fleet it seems.........

 down the quay there is a new set of bridles to put aboard........

 and fuel on a beamer.........

 don't forget it's bin day today........

 alls e for the scallops........

boat For Sale.........

mini-scalloper  Katie Clare is on the hard.

Free WiFi in the Swordfish, Newlyn.

Joe Crow checking the forecast.

Whoever would have thought it! Here we are in a pub that once featured in Sky TV's 'Most Dangerous' pubs series with one of the main protagonists hard at work on his laptop - things sure ain't what they used to be!

Long way from home!

Through the mist, out in the Bay there's a stranger sighted alongside the Anglian Princess........

soon to be revealed as the twin-rigger Copious from Lerwick in the Shetlands.......

as she makes her way in through the gaps.

Breton invasion fleet west of the Scillys!

High tea, high blood pressure!

 Tea by the sea self-contained underway on the prom........

 and a date to put in the diary to sit at probably the longest table in the UK.......

more parrot food washed up on the beach........

Penzance's Rotary Club ably assisted by staff from Treliske Hospital provide a free annual blood pressure test in the Mission........

 the huge Dutch flagged beamer Ora et Labora makes her way in through the gaps..........

and carefully moves over to.........

the end of the quay.........

closely followed by HL 42, Endeavour on passage from her old home port of Hartlepool to her new home in the once great hake port of Milford Haven........

a compact and well rigged inshore boat........ 

with two net drums aft........

and a big thumbs up from the wheelhouse.........

 the Neptune is looking all he better for a coat of pillar box red paint ready to start on the scallops - and of course home every night unless she's prepared to work more than six miles off under the new rules for scallop fishing in Cornish waters........

 a touch of history under way in the harbour......

is passed by Mr Cripps on his way in for another round of Saturday euchre in the Mission.