Posted by: davidstevens
on Aug 21, 2009
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I was lucky enough to be given a tour of Peterhead market today by my friend John Buchan (skipper of the Atlantic Challange) it was very impessive, 12 boats landed this morning with nearly 8000 boxes of fish betwen them. This is nothing unusual for peterhead to handle and there was probably more fish in that 1 day, than the whole southwest would see in a whole week. The infrastucture to deal with
Posted by: davidstevens
on Aug 17, 2009
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The boat is still up at macduff, but she will be ready to go back down the slip wednesday or thursday. The new shaft went in on friday and then they started to weld the new nozzel on into the archway, it had to be done once the new shaft was in place as the welders had to have the prop on the end so the welding was spot on, as the slightest bit of unalinement would result in the prop touching
Posted by: davidstevens
on Aug 08, 2009
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It has been another busy week up here at macduff, the chippys have been down and completly redesigned the fishroom. One of the problems we had was that the boxes we use were smaller, than the one's that they used to use when the boat worked from Scotland, so the boxes never fitted tight into the hold space. So now with the shelves replaced with new one's the boxes now fit snugly in place
Posted by: davidstevens
on Aug 03, 2009
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The shipyard and the paint gang have been busy in the last few days working on the boat. They have stripped off the old paint on the hull and have started to paint the top deck. The workers from the yard have taken off the old prop and nozzel, but when they removed the main drive shaft it was showing quite a bit of wear on the key way, so we have to have a new shaft made. the shaft as you can imagine
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jul 30, 2009
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We arrived a little early yesterday morning, so we went into the broch (fraserbrough) to drop off some boxes that the tranquility had left behind in Newlyn. It was low tide when we got to the murray firth, so we were unable to enter macduuff, as you need at least 3hours of flood to enter the harbour due to our draft. So we headed for macduff in the afternoon and we were moored by 1600hrs,
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jul 28, 2009
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We landed our last trip on friday' s market, we were only away for 36hours and we had 80boxes of mixed fish which was good for the time. We spent the day on Friday cleaning the boat up and getting her ready for the long steam up to macduff, after a lnog day on Friday we went home for the night and we headed off at 11 o'clock on saturday morning.
We headed up the east coast as the
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jul 23, 2009
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We managed to sail again in the early hours of Wednesday morning but had a poor punch out and another rough old day with a large swell running. The fishing has been good again though with Dorys, Haddock and a bit of Squid as well. We are due in to land this afternoon as there is a lot of work to do to get the boat ready for the long steam up to Macduff.
We have to get all our nets off loaded
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jul 21, 2009
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We arrived back in Newlyn this morning followed by yet another unseasonable gale, this was the story for the duration of the trip, with a gale pretty much every other day. The fishing has been good so it was well worth plodding on, but at times we were being thrown around a fair bit and we did wonder if it was worth it.
We had good fishing of haddocks, flats and monk at the start of the trip
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jul 17, 2009
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The summer is here and we have South-Westerly gales and rain of course! Luckily the worst of the weather has been in the evenings, so we have been able to time our landings with that so we don't lose too much fishing time.
The life boats have been kept busy with broken down down yachts, which is the norm this time of year, but the need to retrieve them in haste is all the more important
Posted by: davidstevens
on Jul 11, 2009
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We have just finished another trip, we have been working to the south west of the lizzard point, catching a good mix of fish, but the fishing wasn't that great come the end of the week as the combonation of unsettled weather and a slackish spring tide doesn't help much this time of year.
We had quite an eventful night one night this week, in the south western approaches we have a
