We have had a busy month so far for july, the fishing has been good with plenty of fish on the grounds.
We have been seeing a nice few haddocks like usual with a good run of monks, megs, lemons, and dorys in the catch.









Picture of the wolf rock lighthouse as we passed it up one evening steaming to the west.


The weather has been mainly fine but with the odd couple of days each week being more unsettled, with a westerly breakdown, but apart from last weekend the weather hasn't held us up to much.


On watch last trip we had a tug pass us up steaming to the east with a barge in tow which had a big crane onboard, he was heading for the lizzard and got round just before we had a gale of wind from the west again that night.










Sandris and girts taking the bag after another haul with the Tranquility towing in the background.










The Queen Mary 2 passed us by one evening head east, she was shifting that day travelling at 27knots, you can see her coming for quite a few miles, she makes a fine sight at sea.










Waiting To land one sunday, we had the harbour boat out to do some work on one of the scuppers on the side of the boat. So I headed out into the harbour to get a picture, we had just got back from the slip 3weeks before, as you can see the doors had started to take the paint off aft.









There has also been good fishing for squid up at lundy Island, although the fishing has been excellent at times, the price for the squid has been poor, which is a real shame as it's an important fishery especially for the boats on the north coast.


The squid they catch are quite small and they seem to congregate on the sandy ground just to the northeast of lundy. This is also the site of the proposed Bristol channel wind farm, so the fishery may be severly effected in future years.





Lundy Island couple of years back on a fine day.




Alec has the boat away this week and he is out to the west somewhere, he has been picking away nicely and is due in monday for tuesdays market.

Most of the fleet were in port early last week due to the weather, the markets havn't seen much fish so here's hoping the prices remain good.