We sailed early monday morning and headed south by 30miles, the fishing wasn't to bad with a good run of megs and monk but not a lot of bulk to go with it. The weather was still poor when we shot, with the wind still coming  from the north, but it soon eased and we had a lovelly fine night for a change on monday evening.

The next day we headed west and we found the fishing better

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We sailed yesterday morning and shot after a couple of hours steaming, the forecast was giving the wind cyclonic then going northerly 10, which is off the land so we thought we would be alright for the night.

Unfortunatly for us the low moved further north and west than predicted and we had an increasing ssw wind. The wind wasn't flying to the north as predicted so when the wind reached

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We are hoping to sail tomorrow morning after yet another gale 9 from the southwest comes through tonight. We have been in since a week thursday ago, so we will be glad to get back out to sea and try to find some fish.

The prices are apparently through the roof, with soles making £21 a kg, and monks making £18 a kg, so we will have to hopefully get some fish and try to catch a

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Al and the crew got in on thursday morning and we landed the catch that they had for the couple of days, that they managed to snatch.

Whilst we were landed a film crew were down from the BBC, they had been in the area filming the history of fishing and familys at sea and they had got in touch with my Dad and asked if he could help.

The programme goes quite in depth into how diferent

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With another 24hour gap in the weather,We sailed agiain monday evening and steamed off a little further this time, to see if we could find a bit better fishing. We have so far got another 5hauls hauls in but its quite poor now and I think we will be blown in again later as they are giving severe gales for the rest of the week and through the weekend.

The fishing hasn't been to bad with

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We sailed again late thursday afternoon after we had landed, so the fish would make Fridays market.  Alec had to come in on thursday morning early, as the sender for the autopilot had bust on the rudder, so they had to stear the boat by hand whilst towing and with a southwest 6-7 it was not easy to keep the boat on coarse.

The forecast was for a southerly 8-9 for a time so they came

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The poor spell of weather is set to continue this weekend and with them giving sothwest 8-9 again tomorrow it looks like Alec will be blown in again. the fishing hasn't been to bad with a few haddocks and nice bit of flat and monk, but its not big fishing just picking away.

The prices are holding up which is good, but supplies have been short recently, so they should be ok this time when

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We sailed on thursday evening as the gale from the north west was starting to ease, we didn't go to far only a couple of hours off, as the forecast for saturday was poor again.

We managed to get four hauls in, the first haul was not so good as there was still a large swell running when we shot, but this eased and by the secound tow we had far better weather and the swell had droped.

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We started our trip last saturday night, we have been working 30-40 miles off to the ssw of Newlyn. The fishing has been reasonable but very spotty and we have been on the move constantly, trying to stop in the fishing.

We had poor weather again tuesday daytime, with  another southeasterly blow giving us a pasting again, when all of a sudden on janis's watch the fuel consumption

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We came back to Newlyn this morning after a rough 3days at sea, they were giving a gale for the daylight today, so with us only being 3hours away we headed in and landed our catch. We also had some repair work to do in one of the nets, as in the poor weather the net had got damaged and the port wing needed resetting.

The Tranquility also landed with us today so we shared the transport, the

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