Monday morning's market full of 'ake and 'addock!

Bit of a dull day after all the recent blue skies, one of every kind of fishing boat in the arbour at the moment...

hake landings over the weekend included a big shot form the Ocean Pride....

plus a few cracking tubs...

and hake form the Ygraine more than enough to keep the buyers busy...

the netters with their 120mm mesh only catch decent sized haddock...

with whole monk on the market you know that there is a Scotsman in town, in this case the seiner, Acionna...

good ray fishing with some of the inshore boats...

while there are at last a few signs of John Dory landings increasing...

as each...

of the day boats...

managed at the very least four boxes apiece...

the megrim lookalikes are witches...

and plenty of haddock from the seiner...

some of the inshore guys picked up some good landings of Dovers...

and more Dory...

as well as these lovely red mullet...

and more Dory!..

Couch's bream, fantastic fish for a big family BBQ...

more Dory...

and still more...

headless monk, bound for the bait bins...

the yachting season is now officially at its peak with no more spare berths in Newlyn...

work on the Trevessa IV continues apace...

CK25, Venture.

 

Charles and Camilla walk and talk fish in Newlyn.

After an early visit to Mousehole Prince Charles and his wife Camilla headed for Newlyn... 

where, in front of the harbour offices, Camilla spotted a familiar face as Prince Charles was introduced to commissioners and harbour team including Rob Wing seen here alongside newly appointed harbourmaster Jonathon Poynter...

while Camilla shook hands with deputy harbourmaster Jedna Hall...

before the visitors moved on to see examples of tiny lobsters from the Lobster Hatchery project, Dr Carly Daniels here showing off a minute lobster hatched just this morning...

more fishing talk as Tom Lambourn holds up a whole monk while Andrew Pascoe explains to Camilla why it is also known as the angler fish...

Prince Charles took the opportunity and ventured on his own down to the marina berths where he surprised Nathan Thomas and Ifan Williams aboard the Three Jays busy sorting gear...

under a blazing Mounts Bay sun the Royal couple headed...

 for the marginally cooler interior of Richard Adams' Argoe restaurant...

where they were offered some examples of the chef's particular Newlyn sourced delicacies including hake throats. On a visit many years ago to the Pilchard Works in Newlyn, Charles told owner Nick Howell that his father, like many serving in Italy during WWII, had never wanted to see another tin of canned pilchard having loved off endless tins of the South African variety! The couple then moved on to visit Michael Johnson's Newlyn Copperworks, before returning immediately afterwards to dine in peace at Argoe, far from the madding crowd.

Blazing Monday morning in Newlyn.

Something in the air this morning, Lionel is busy weeding - before...

and after...

meanwhile Monday morning's market saw mainly inshore trawl and line caught fish up for auction...

like these mackerel...

bass...

and brill, caught by local hero Tom on the Guardian who successfully rescued the stricken yacht Pir2 after she capsized within sight of him while fishing SW of Lands End...

maybe Jamie Oliver has invested in a fishing boat...

trawl caught John Dory...

line caught mullet from Capn'n Cod...

and trap caught cuttles...

along with a few boxes of sardines landed last night by the Lyonesse...

ask Alexa and 2.4kg of mackerel shall be given...

possible signs of squid on the move this morning...

not as fast as Graham though...

monk cut in chunks make magnificent BBQ kebabs...

while lemons are best kept on the bone...

another day for the local angling boat, Freedom...

in mirror-like conditions...

another tier of nest gets over-ended - machines like that enable boats as small as the Bonnie Grace to work singlehanded...

there's a number of inshore beam trawlers working from Newlyn at the moment like the Fleetwood registered Providing Star...

and the Simon Paul...

the Union flag just about unfurled in a the gentle morning zephyrs...

Spirited Lady will be away later today...

the tidy creel boat Katy B...

salvaged yacht Pir2 is now awaiting repairs before heading back to France and a welcome reception...

enough gill nets to fill an artic...

work in progress on Stevenson's tug...

be aware! - number plate recognition is now a thing for all areas including the car park in Newlyn.

 

Capsized Trimaran Pir2 righted and brought into Newlyn.

The 50' trimaran, Pir2 skippered by Etienne Hochedé took part in the Route de Rhum solo trans-Atlantic race in November 2018...

 

recently decided to head back to France across the Atlantic from Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadaloupe...

when disaster struck and and she capsized around 5pm just four miles south of Lands End -  Tom McClure on the trawler Guardian who was less than a mile away at the time noticed that the mast appeared to be canted at an angle ...

The AIS track for both vessels (yacht in yellow) traces the rescue pattern - towing the yacht into a safe berth off Newlyn, the rescue took,,in total, 40 hours - AIS trace courtesy of VesselTracker

and then disappear from view and on the AIS that the boat had a much reduced speed - while he steamed towards the yacht a Navy helicopter on exercise appeared and airlifted the skipper to Treliske where he was kept in for observation overnight before heading to Newlyn to find his boat now righted and alongside the quay...

as luck would have it, the mast and sails from the yacht had been removed by the salvage boat working on the replacement of fenders in the harbour...

which then turned its attention to the capsized hull ably supported by Jeremy on the Danmark...

and skipper Tom McClure on the trawler Guardian...

eventually the hull was righted...

and the yacht towed into Newlyn alongside...

the North pier...

where she was pumped out and the skipper helped in rescuing the contents of his cockpit and in making ready for repairs to the starboard sponson which was damaged in collision with a submerged though to be the cause of the capsize.