This blog has moved!

You can find all the latest posts here at;

http:www.throughthegaps.blogspot.com

If you have bookmarked or added ThroughTheGaps blog to your favourites and keep coming back to this page - it needs updating bycopying and pasting the link above to your browser!

Google changed their FTP interface forcing the change!

No sign yet of eight new harbour commssioners.

Today was due to hear the names announced that eight new harbour commissioners have been appointed to NPHC board. However, no news from the harbour office or the Department of Transport who had taken the unprecedented step of dissolving the present board. A total of 26 applications were received from which 16 were shortlisted. Eight new commissioners will sit alongside three appointees and one of their first jobs will be to oversee the introduction of the new Harbour Revision Order that will bring Newlyn into line with the DoT's 'Good Governance' guidelines.


No clues as to the identity of any new members have come to light - though this pick-up has been spotted in a certain parking space in front of the harbour offices.

Friday's fish fiesta.

Beamer cod ends hung out to dry......
the march of the blue box empire continues down the quay......
a good combination.......
there' a couple of green interlopers at the box washer station......
hand grading this year's rarest fish on the market.....
at long last there's a showing of mackerel in the Bay as a couple of mackerel men check the price with the Wiffer......
with hit and miss results for the handful of boats quick to catch on......
no doubt the price will plummet from the £1.70 a kilo on Thursday......
whereas these Dorys always hold their price.....
time for the anglers to hit the wrecks courtesy of Viking Charters......
as a steady trickle of yachts make an appearance.....
another Brixham beamer makes a start on her gear.....
while the punt Mark & James heads back to her berth.....
the punts will all be hoping that the mackerel are here to stay....
over in the Mission there's some renovation work to be tendered for by any local building firms interested - with the added bonus of the finest fresh Newlyn haddock, chips and mushy peas for lunch every day!

French tow job makes Andrew's day.

Call the signwriter!.......
time to let go the ends of the crabber......
just when harbour master Andrew Munson thought it was time to head home for tea the St Brieus registered Neway tows in her fellow company boat the Cap 4000........
unaware of the impending drama, a passing tosher heads out through the gaps......
Andrew tries to head off the Neway as the skipper seems hell bent on making his way down the =harbour and not where he is wanted......
despite his attempts, the tow continues in the wrong direction......
and Andrew in the harbour punt is forced to follow......
eventually managing to persuade the visiting skipper to come around and head for the correct berth! An engineer is expected to arrive from France the following day with the required starter motor in his possession.

Warp factor 10

Skipper Billy Worth, ably assisted by Juicy and Perry turn one of Newlyn's biggest trawlers around in the harbour before taking on a drum of new warp.

Top dinner party fish on the fish market.

At eleven kilos this specimen turbot would make the perfect Come Dine With Me centrepiece (if a little over the top), at £160 on the market you'd need to make sure you won the £1000 to cover the cost!......
equally valuable as a result of their scarcity, a handful of mackerel just about cover the bottom of a box, at one end......
down the quay, time for the St Georges to have new warps, skipper Billy Worth puts his back into turning the boat round so that the starboard winch drum can be loaded......
Juicy spritely hops up on to the quay......
to supervise proceedings........
ably assisted by Perry, without a pair of spoons in his hand.......
as ever, it's the high-tec approach down the quay, a plank of wood with the weight of an engineer that provides a steadying drum brake as the winch heaves the wire......
around a series......
of blocks and a ton of granite resting on the pallet to take out the snatch - simple but effective..

High above the gaps.

The vantage from St Peter's Hill provides an ideal 'through the gaps' spotting point......
as the boats head back to land.