Zac takes her for a spin

Complementing the Jubilee Poll opposite, one of Penzance's classic pieces of Art Deco architecture and looking resplendent in the evening sun, The Yacht Inn provides fine food, fine ale and a friendly 'book' that takes place every evening based on the time the Scillonian III is first sighted rounding Penlee Point - (roughly 10 minutes to 7pm)......rumour has it the ghost of Hercule Poirot can be sometimes be seen on that balcony.....
back in place after a major refit, the now turquoise Ross Bridge has a rash of hard hats all over it making final checks to its operational status.....
by air or by sea, a trip to Scilly has something for everyone......
a mini gin-palace, not the sort of vessel you would normally want tied up alongside your traditional working boat......
lighting up time down the old quay, no longer the job of the harbour staff to light all the harbour lamps of an evening - further up the coast, Mevagissey can boast being the first place in England to have electric street lighting, not a lot of people know that.......
although heavy showers are the order of the day as the sun drops below the yardarm.....
always a temptation of man's to leave a commemorative mark......
the IRB gets put through her paces with Zac at the helm......
guess the boat.......
some will be hoping there's a pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow.

Not for a long time

The Lisa Jacqueline (ex Hubenada) has left the quay for the slip ending the longest period of slip in-activity in living memory - not many years ago it was not unusual to see a boat go up and down the slip on the same tide such was the demand.....
the harbours 'mini-slip', space on the end of the New Quay alongside the crane allows punts the chance for a quick bottom scrub or other repair work, today it's the turn of Pete Downing's Sea-Jay seen being carefully chocked.....
the Silver Dawn is undergoing a hauling system modification on a grans scale, skipper Hosking making some final checks on the now removed Spencer Carter N10 hauler on the quay.....
back in town again, the Three Sons from Brixham......
two more visitors cast their light on the harbour waters.....
wandering the perimeter of the Penlee Marin development, a security guard checks out the blooming daffodils.

Its a long steam from Icleandic grounds - but worth it says Icelandic trawler owner.

For the first time in ten years Icelandic fishing boats have landed fresh catches to Grimsby market on the East coast. You may spot the rural corespondent's (obviously a landlubber) error in the story where the boat is described as being 50 ft in length when, judging by the size of the wheelhouse and the containers being landed in the video, she is more likely to be at least 50 metres! - see the video report here.

Petition to No10 in support of Fishermen prosecuted in the UK

Anyone with access to a computer can visit the petition pages in the Governement's website. If you wish to support the petition outlined below started by Darren Rosson, follow the link:

DEFRA have recently prosecuted Fishermen in both Scotland
and Cornwall for landing fish in contravention of their quotas or licences. They have received fines which are not commensurate to the 'crime' when compared to career criminals who seem to get away with very little sanction. However once the fines have been imposed the authorities have pursued the families stripping assets using the proceeds of Crime Act. The act is on the statute to strip assets from criminals who have amassed their wealth from criminal acts. Fishermen have amassed what little they have through work in the most harsh of
conditions!!!!

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/FishermenPOCA/#detail

Spring fishing

Captain Leach and son Gary head the Achieve back into a berth after landing their trip to the market.....
view of the stern arrangement on the Plymouth multi-pupose trawler/beamer Admiral Gordon......
all the netters, like the Ajax here, will be hoping for good prices this morning with big trips of superb quality hake.....
evidence of the time of year in the shape of mixed boxes of hard and soft roes.....
Robert George from Seafood Cornwall casts an eye over 61/2 tins of poillack from Kenny Downing's Golden Harvest......
a fine shot of ray from the inshore fleet runs the length of the chill room ....
while Edwin keeps the head office of Ocean Fish up to date with the big gill-net trips on the market.....
it takes time to ice over nearly 7 tons of fish from the Ajax....
in the scrap bay someone has had enough of their on-board exercise machine....
back go the boxes on the crabber Pen Glas.....
seems there are some keeping the landlady on her toes in the Star.....
while she promises to keep the punters happy by fixing prices till the end of the month, well all except the Stella for some reason!