Newlyn Coombe river in full flood again pass just under the Meadery bridge as heavy rains and gale force winds hammer the far west of Cornwall. Elsewhere in the UK it's a white world. #nosnow
Friday, 18 January 2013
Plenty of wind through the night as the UK gets hit by snow its gales and heavy rain over Cornwall
The wind graph from the Sevenstones lightship shows the wind steadily increasing up to nearly 40 knots at 0100 hours...
as a result, the Breton and French boats working around Land's End leave some interesting tracks on the AIS. It looks like the Effera has been towing south west for the best part of the last twenty four hours.
Fishy Friday's full of fishy favourites
The newly named and numbered, Sapphire II...
preparing to lift off a damaged derrick...
loading the broken top half of the derrick on the Dutch transport flatbed trailer...
eyes down for a full house as the soles go under the auctioneer...
plenty of megrim soles with the AA...
glowing red gurnards greet the market...
as another batch of data is collected...
the cuttle catches have risen since the Xmas break, shame the prices are not what they were last year though...
Newlyn Coombe river in full spate again...
flowing just under the Newlyn Meadery bridge...
even the boating pool at Wherry Town overflowed in the early hours....
Big swell in the Graveyard
No doubt a few of the local surfers will take advantage of the big swell running in the Bay this morning. This spot at the back of the North Quay known locally as the Graveyard only gets a good wave when wind and swell conditions come together. The worst gale in the last 40 years (1979) saw some seas reaching the height of the lamp posts - seven boats sank that night - crews were aboard all the larger vessels with their engines running trying to keep the tiers of boats in place as a huge 'run' in the harbour caused the boats to ride heavily on their mooring ropes.
Belgian beam trawler derrick damaged in poor weather
The crew of the Belgian beam trawler in the process of removing the lower half of the snapped derrick. This is a common occurrence with beam trawlers fishing in poor weather - if the trawl becomes fast (stuck on some sort of hitch on the sea bed) while they are fishing and is lifted on a big swell the sudden strain can easily snap even the biggest of derricks.
Belgian beamer loads broken derrick
The Belgian Euro-cutter, loads one half of his damaged starboard side derrick on to a waiting lorry. Rather than have the work done locally, the boat had organised heavy transport from Holland to take the derrick home for repair.
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