After some TLC below the waterline, it’s time to come down from slip…
and escape the slip’s cradle…
before the sardine boat Mayflower heads off across the Bay only to find there’s no GPS…
so it’s back in through the gaps…
to find a berth…
and get on the phone to summons some tehcnical expertise to sort the problem…
things are not so good fr the sardine fleet at the moment with most of the boats drawing a blank on more nights than not as is evident from the sorties they have made in search of suitable marks of fish – that aren’t being cased hard by bluefin and dolphins…
over in Penzance Dry Dock where it is still a block and tackle used to open the dock gates…
some serious bits of kit are in the process of being installed…
meanwhile, the wet dock is hosting a guard ship or two…
along with the old Scilly supply ship, Gry Maritha…
down comes the job after a successful lift in…
looks like the scaffolding bug has spread to the new Scilly supply ship, Menawethan…
over in Newlyn Thursday morning’s auction has just got underway at 6am and a couple of keen Falmouth Uni students are getting the low down from head auctioneer Ian…
and there is plenty of fish for the guys to see…
with decent tris of fish from the port’s big trawler, Crystal Sea…
quality tubs from the netter Ygraine…
monk livers and cheeks from the beam trawler Cornishman…
more hake from the Ocean Pride…
and a good mix is just what the students need for their research, her grabbing a reference pic of some ceacking gilt-head bream…
the Ygraine pitched in with a huge shot of bass only to find the price on the floor, more than 50% less than what they might have expected for this tome of year at the very least, just one of the challenges skippers have to deal with…
as usual, the big beam trawlers both anded good shots of monk which seem to hold their price better than top drawer fish like bass…
a little trick used by the fishroom man is to pair up Dover soles belly-to-belly which helps keep the belly of this delicately flavoured fish from being damaged and discoloured by ice……
not a problem with tails…
even less so with head-on monk!..
it’s a dull sart to the day with the ambient temperature having dropped significantly from the weekend when many people were still walking along the promenade in T-shirts!