Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We sailed last Friday with Rupert the cameraman from the BBC onboard once again, as the last two trips that he sailed with us were bad luck, we asked him to take a turn out of himself this time before we sailed. The first trip that Rupert did with us was back in december, when we were forced back in after two hauls with by a vicious storm. The next trip was the last trip when thehydrolic clutch went down, so we thought that he must of been carrying bad luck with him, so we had to peform the taking out of a turn.

This must of done the trick, as when we sailed we had lovely fine weather and very good fishing. Rupert was able to get plenty of filming done and we had a very enjoyable trip, being filmstars for the forthcoming series to be shown on BBC4 called A History of Fishing.

We headed back in on monday evening with a nice bit of fish aboard so we could catch a good market. We had a quick turn around and said our goodbyes to rupert and this time we had Tom come with us for a trip. Tom is studying photography at falmouth university and he asked if he could come to take some photo's for his disatation.

Once again the weather was good as was the fishing, but yesterday the fishing slacked off and with a NW gale coming through the night we headed off in as we had quite a bit of work to do.

We put new warps on today as the old one's needed repalcing, it was quite a messy job as they were very greasy, but it's a good job done and we are hoping to sail again later tonight.