Small Dutch invasion fleet in the Bay

Last of the few netters that braved the weeks appalling weather, Padstow netter , Berlewen puts her trip ashore to the market fridge...
as Royden ducks the morning's torrential rain....the Intuition makes her way in past a Dutch freezer trawler dodging in the Bay...
Dutch freezer SCH303 Ariadne at anchor....Breton chalutier Jacques de Thezac...
later in the afternoon, the Dom Bosco ends what must have been an uncomfortable day hauling pots off the Wolf
work is progressing well on the latest addition to the crabbing fleet..
not much doing on the slip, only a couple of bedraggled cormorants...
close up of the second Dutch freezer SCH 6 Alida astern of the Anglian Princess, both riding at anchor

Ready to go

With the entire fleet tied up (apart from the sheltering Breton boats that have now sailed) there's not much doing down the quay - a couple of hundred new pots wait on the quay to go aboard one of the port's crabbers.

Late arrival joins other Breton boats sheltering in Newlyn

The Connemerra and Barra An Aod shelter from the winter's first seriious blow along with..
the Kuzh Heol and Le Nautile from Loctudy...
seen here on Sunday...
the Roxanne, now registered in Douarnenez was originally a startling purple in colour...
late on Sunday afternoon, Le Casquests joins the other sheltering vessels..
she's from the tiny fishing port of St Brieux on the Cote D'Amorthe mate seen here indicating to the skipper that there are 5m of water showing on the stone quay depth guage...

she makes her way down the harbour....and into tier....

outside the Swordfish, l'equippage de la Kuzh Heol take advantage of their enforced 'vacance'!
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