The boat is due in this afternoon after a 6 day trip to the southwest, the fishing has benn godd and Al and the crew have over 300boxes onboard. It is a good mix of fish with half being made up of a good run of haddocks and the rest is a mix of Megs, monk, dory, whittens, squid, lemons, with a few cuttle's starting to show.

The forecast is not looking to good for the

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We arrived back in Newlyn last night after a 5day trip away to the south of Newlyn by 30-40miles, the trip started off slack for the first couple of days, then we moved out deeper and we got in on some good fishing. We were having a good mix of fish with some good hauls of haddocks and a steady basket of monk tails a haul, with a few megs and a sprinkling of other fish.

The weather was fine

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We have just finished a 5 day trip off to the south of the lizzard point, the fishing was a bit slack this trip. It was a funny old tide with it remaining quite flat for a few days around the top of the spring, which is never any good for the fishing.

But there was a nice bit of squid to be had at times, the squid are getting quite large now, as this is usually the best time of year&

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We landed our catch on Tuesday evening, all was going well, getting our jobs done in good time, so we went up to take ice. As we travelled up the habour and approached the ice works, I felt a shallow thud, so I knocked the boat out of gear as I wasn't sure what it could be, but something had obviously hit the propellor. We took our ice as planned and I phoned up Gus, who does a fair bit of

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The boat is due back in this evening, Alec has had the boat away this week and with the tide cutting he headed off to the southwest. He has had good fishing again, with a nice few boxes of megrim and monk fish, so our new all purpose flat fish nets seem to be working well.

We ordered a couple of these new design nets when we were up in scotland, they have slightly less net in what we

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We got off to a good start with some very good fishing for the first trip back, which we were all very glad to see, but it came as a bit of a shock to the system after being laid up for so long. The fishing was so heavy that I ended up with blisters on my fingers from the amount of gutting, I'm not complaining though, but I have told my wife that if we are in for so long again I will have

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We arrived back in Newlyn on sunday afternoon after a four day steam from macduff. We had a good run down and we were lucky enough to get the tide right in the north channel and we once again reached over 14knots. There was a large spring tide over the weekend, which we tried to use to our advantage on the steam down. In some places we got it right but in other places it was quite slow going, one

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We left MacDuff yesterday evening after getting the all clear from Roddy and David, the engineers. We headed north by west for the Pentland Firth. The run was good upto the Pentland with a light NW 4-5 breeze, but when we entered the firth (which is the straits between the Orkneys and the north of Scotland) we were met by quite a large westerly swell and were hurtling along in a 9 knot tidal race

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Sorry for not blogging for so long, but the boat is still up in macduff. We found further problems with the stern gear when we went to leave last week and it turned out that the stern tube had dropped ever so slightly, so once again the yard pulled out all the stops to put this problem right.

They had

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Unfortunaty we are still up in scotland, we went out on trials last weekend and we found that the new shaft that we had to have fitted was running hot. We were unable to cool it down by allowing water to flood the stern tube so this pointed to something more seriosly wrong, so we headed first to Peterhead then after an inspection by the engineers at macduff we thought it best to head up to the

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