RoRo ferry, Mazarine runs aground at the Wolf Rock under the lighthouse

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The Ro-Ro ferry, Mazarine drifted onto the Wolf Rock at around 0950 this morning...

AIS charts courtesy of VesselTracker

 en route from Cobh to Zeebrugge...

after suffering engine failure just west of the Wolf Rock while transiting the southbound traffic separation zone between lands End and Scilly...

both Sennen...

and Penlee lifeboat were called out and steamed off in strong winds...

to standby, though there's not much they can do to hold a 195m high-sided transporter ship...

chart courtesy of WindyTV

in the strong sou'westerly winds gusting up to 30knots earlier this morning...

the Trinity House offshore vessel Galatea is now headed out of the Solent to assist...

as is a more local tug, the Mercia from Falmouth, expected to arrive later this afternoon. Undoubtedly, there will be calls to re-instate an emergency towing vessel on permanent standby in Mounts Bay...

as was the case for many years, stationed there to assist in the event of a potentially disastrous situation.

Saturday to Monday morning in Newlyn.

Saturday morning and the Swordfish is open for breakfast again with mein host Jo holding court...

Border Force, keeping an eye on things around the coast...

the boys on the Silver Dawn take off tiers of nets to be overhauled and mended, the easy way...

fast forward to Monday morning and the sun seems to have deserted us again...

despite the weather the market was almost devoid of fish this morning...

the inshore trawler, Guardian was the biggest boat to put any fish ashore...

though the big news of the day was that at long last there are mackerel being landed in summer quantities...

a little ray of sunshine you might say...

to go with this unusual and rare spotted ray...

crawfish...

and bass made up the best part of the inshore boats' landings...

while Tom kept the local shops happy with a few megrims...

and monk tails...

you'd think he'd never retired wouldn't you?, young Roger helping the singlehanded punts to land their mackerel...

speedily taken into the chillroom for grading and weighing ready for tomorrow's auction......

there's always someone who can't resist leaving their mark in wet concrete...

it takes two tankers to fuel the Julie of Ladram...

paint job nearly completed...

now you see them, not for much longer...

two coasters at anchor in the Bay.

An overcast #FishyFriday in Newlyn and July is not quite flaming June yet!

A typical start to the day at the end of the first week in July sees the sun obscured by a veil of low could again...

not that the resident harbour seal, lurking just off the fish market in expectation of someone tossing him a fish is bothered...

one thing is for sure that it won't be a mackerel as they are in such short supply that they are making double-figures at auction...

paws make good money too...

while the number of bass on the market was marginally ;less than that of mackerel...

these guys are still crawling into pots along the shore...

apart from a netter, the Cornishman  was the only other big boat to land...

there's a small sewing job waiting to be done it seems...

the money bag end of the Acciona's seine net...

detail of the ground rope - much lighter than any of the inshore trawlers

and the wing end...

meanwhile, both beam trawls have been taken off the Enterprise...

 and been stripped...

leaving two piles of chain from the mats...

ever thought of taking. up gig rowing? - see Pendeen Gig Club for more info...

ICFA's handy tool to how to stay on the right side of the law...

700 hundred years old and not a stone out of place, if only those granite stones could talk...

Cilix, a classic varnished folk-boat...

there must be a hole in the cloud cover somewhere up there...

Stelissa looking good after her annual paint up.

 

Fish of the day week 30 - Mediterranean octopus

 

Back in 2022, as spring turned to summer on odd days boats ranging from beam trawlers to inshore trawlers land...

the odd Mediterranean octopus - which, as its name suggest, are common in the Mediterranean...

this year, they have been caught and landed in much bigger numbers, one inshore punt working lobster pots close to the shore landed over 250kg in one day...

the downside of having these visitors is that they love dining on lobster - with disastrous consequences for any that they discover in a pot where they are a captive prey...

the octopus at this time of year move inshore seeking places to spawn - in this instance the eggs have been laid on a trap used to fish for them!...

there are any number of ways to cook these fine tasting fish, grilled on a BBQ with simple oilive oil, lemon and herb dressings are the most simple, marinading and cooking in boiling water - lowering the fish very slowly into the water so that the tentacles curl up is another way to enjoy the current supply of fresh fish. m,any local restaurants like Argoe and The Shore have them on their menus this year.

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