Big Dutchmen are glad to be green!

Skipper and some of the crew aboard the huge Dutch beamer Ora et Labora are happy with both the resultant work and fishing results having turned 'green' and put their giant beam trawls ashore, swapping them for a twin-rig trawl system.....
stern view of the boat shows the trawl deck arrangement.....
and the pristine trawl doors after their first trip to the clean grounds off to the South'ard, something that was tried out (not so successfully apparently) in a Seafish sponsored trial last year by the Lerwick registered stern trawler Alison Kaye......
and being Dutch, there's the obligatory bike on board.....
traditional method of dealing with an empty oil drum at sea, pierce it with holes and toss it overboard......
the pair team are ready to sail.......

chasing in a mackerel punt is the Resurgan.....
as she passes the light.......
the Chickadee helps to pull the Billy Rowney from her quay berth......
even the Angel Emiel s dwarfed by the Ora et Labora.......
the St Ive's lugger Barnabus is gettting a new foremast courstesy of John Lambourn, the man behind the Ripple's restoration......
over on the Penzance Sailing Club's slipway, Bob Glanville, founder member of the Mount's Bay Lugger Association supervises a bottom scrub for the Happy Return......
where the Scilly registered cat Sowenna is getting the same treatment.