Smoke and sail

Surrounded by hungry gulls, the Breton stern trawler Digny heads back out to the grounds......
after hours against the quay with her main engine idling, going hard astern for the Cornishman shrouds the Intuition in exhaust fumes.....
half way through the paint job for the Ros Na Rioch......
Big brother and Little brother, smallest memebr of the Rowse fleet comes alongside the Emma Louise.....
Dragun-An-Moar (captured in pastels here by marine artrist James Bartholomew) makes her way to the market with some slack mackerel fishing this evening.....
looking for some gold at the end of the rainbow......
the Cornishman heads out from the gaps.......
and lowers her derricks for the long steam ahead......
passed astern by a hardy looking bunch aboard the yacht raising their mains'l.....
as they dodge head-to-wind......
and, after hoisting the fores'l, pick up the North Westerly draft and head away from the shore.....
there's some serious repair work to be done with the port side wing of this clean ground trawl.