Crystal Sea Trawling Blog

We arrived back to Newlyn in the early hours of saturday morning after our 2week re-fit at Tom's yard in Polruan near Fowey.

We were lucky with the weather, which was a great help as we  managed to get the boat well painted up. We have also had a good re-fit with quite a bit of work being done around the boat.

The men at the shipyard had been kept busy and pulled out all the stops to get us ready in time to come down the slip on friday afternoon. We have had a crab tank fitted, two new seacocks, lots of welding work, caulking of the seems and butts around the hull, new sheaving on the starboard side, new hydrolic levers for the crane and pipes, a new flat screen tv with a built in cuboard and much more.

As usual Alan and Paul Tom's were really helpful and made sure all the work was done in time, so many thanks to them and the men at the yard. Also to paul our engineer who gave the engine a good service and to flossy who put up quite a few new lights about the boat, also John of fowey fluid power who overhauled the crane.

We always enjoy our stay at the yard as it is a very attractive place to visit, you would never beleive a yard was down there but they do a lot of work at Tom's re-fitting most of the boats in the southwest. But after two weeks of painting we will be glad to get back to sea and catch some fish.