Get the bunting out! - it's Catherine and Wills' wedding day.

The wedding day bunting that adorned some of Stevenson's fleet is nearly as old as the boats themselves........ 

and could do with seeing an iron perhaps........ 

while in historic Chapel Street, Penzance's oldest pub, the Turk's Head was set for the day......

along the prom,  the Lugger Hotel was covered in Union Jacks........

 as was the Farmer's Market outside St John's Hall........

in a Chapel Street gallery window, a cartoon depicts the Americas Cup in 1901 when Sir Thomas Lipton with Shamrock II led an unsuccessful challenge against the Americans with their boat Columbia - more info on the artist needed here.......

 on her way to the Scillys.......

 the Matthew........

 complete with a gig team for the World Gig Championships........

 still with her Dawn Treader main sail furled.......

 even boats get have their own fly past........

 time to get the kit aboard.......

 a few day's work on this trawl ahead......

 paint up time on the CKS........

 fantastic looking turbot from the Harvest Reaper........

with a very busy market to finish the week.

Lyonesse in Rye.

Photos of the old Newlyn longliner Lyonesse arriving at about 1930 on the 27th in Rye Harbour,  which is about two miles up the Rother from Rye Town itself........

Photos courtesy of Phillip Moore.

her number can still clearly be seen on her starboard bow.

Under the gaze of an artist's eye.

An auction scene often captured by local artist Bernard Evans as Ocean Fish's buyer places his tallies on the boxes he has just won in the bidding process...

big run of megs from the flagship boat...

time to reflect...

this subject more often found behind a canvas than the lens...

two huge net drums waiting to go aboard one of Newlyn's trawlers...

visiting sailing ship Matthew is currently based in Falmouth...

cat owners, like Mitch on the Sowenna, are spoilt for deck space...

just checking on the sale progress...

chance of a lifetime at the Star Inn and an opportunity to support Newlyn Harbour's Christmas lights...

along the promenade, the Queens Hotel has pulled out all the stops with its patriotic display.

Royal knits - curtsy of Knit Wits, Penzance.

One Penzance shop has re-ceated tomorrow's wedding proceedings in the Abbey........

 with these wonderfully crafted knitted figures.......

some bearing more than a passing resemblance to certain members of the Royal Family. Well done Knit Wits!

Lub Senior seining shots.

The huge Dutch seiner had one busy day with nine shots this week, better than last week when the Navy boarded her and gave her a three hour inspection at sea.

St Ives painting recently bought at David Lay's auction - more information forthcoming.

Further analysis of the St Ives painting has revealed more information and given rise to some confusion over the boat and incident in question......

for instance, closer analysis of the note on the back reveals some text on the reverse side that says, "Return of  the Girl Renee after missing for three days, St Ives, 1962"  in a different hand.........

the artist has now been identified as one, Edith M Huxham - Janet Axten, from the St Ives Trust archive has supplied the following information about her, "She is not a St Ives or Newlyn artist, but she showed five paintings in an exhibition at Lanhams Gallery (there is a Lanhams Gallery sticker on the back)in St Ives many years ago. The Archive has a copy of the catalogue, but it is undated sadly. I would think that the exhibition might have taken place in the 1920s or early 1930s, but the name of the exhibition was called ‘Paintings and Watercolours by artists past and present' - so not very helpful. Her paintings were selling for £5.00. She painted a work called ‘The Mermaid of Zennor’, but the rest of the paintings were flower studies".......

a closer look at the bow of the boat reveals indistinct lettering.......

while this crop gives a better view of the boat which John McWilliams suggests could be Breton rather than St Ives (due to the rounded or slightly flared bow)......

this is the painting in full.

PZ81 Lyonesse update.

 John McWilliams kindly added this photo of the Lyonesse laying outside the drifter Feasible the other week before making her way up to the Thames.....

Photos courstey of John McWilliams, St Ives.

and a shot of her leaving Newlyn back when she was fishing. Amongst many stories, she is perhaps most famous for being subjected to the kind of interest by one of Her Majesty's warships on patrol that you could do without when at sea - being shelled, in July 1959, by HMS Belfast while she was long lining!