Paul our engineer is down today looks like the cylinder has a hole in it which is allowing water to drop down into the sump we done the right thing coming in would have damaged the engine if we carried on. The only good way to look at it is no damage done and we were due to lay up end of this trip to go up to the slip in Polruan for our annual refit, so at least it happened the right side of the refit, but still would of rather got the trip in such is life.

I know i seem to go on about the fuel alot but it is getting serious now it rose 8p a lire this week that is a 15% rise in a week, many of my colleegs in the beam trawler fleet are tied up unable to make it pay and we have no idea where the fuel price will be in another mounth or two but it is sure to rise further even ourselve

Fishing is still good but hauled this morning alarm ringing off on aux engine we have water in the oil, can't carry on as we may damage the engine so we use the gear retrieve to haul the gear up and head off in gutted fine weather good fishing typical.

The fishing is good today which is a releif it makes the job so much easier were still south lizzard catchin dory, lemons, monk, red mullets, haddocks and megs the weather is fresh from south east but other than that its fine, its also alecs birthday maybe have aspecial tea tonight.

Alec called this morning he is 20miles south lizzard point, Damo our crewman cut his arm badly with his gutting knife so Alec is on the way in to get Damo to hospital. They get in just after dinner, the inshore lifeboat picks Damo off our stern and takes him to the quay ateps where the mission man takes him to casualty, i get the grub and my dad has orderd fuel and a lorry to land the vessel. It is now 1900hrs Damo has had 5stitches but other than that he's in good spirits, we sail again with myself and dad going back to sea this time with Alec and Janis this jobs always throws up surprises.

Weateher is still lovly misty starts but lovely days sea like a mirror slight swell from the west its far cry from only a few weeks back when we were being rolled to death for 6mounths I'm steaming for homenow back to newlyn 5hrs away fishing has been good this week 230 boxes ofprime fish just hoping for good prices I'l land and sail again tonight.

Still west of the bishop rock by 12miles fishing still very good but its starting to slack so i'm going to drop outside a bit deeper my freind Andy on the Defiant has found bit of fish there il steam out this evening only take an hour.

Big haul this morning I'm happy crews happy plenty of John Dorys! we had 200kgs today and plenty of flat megs and lemons hoping to work here for a few days weather is also good things are looking up summers here at last.

Fishing still slack but its good stuff coming aboard nice few monks and flats also nice few dover soles tomorrow the tide takes a big jump i'm going to move west of the bishop rock to catch john dory bit of a gamble
but they should be there

Saile 0330hrs shot the wolf this is where we left off last trip not so good this time but the tide is very slack so i didn't expect much else

We are in today for weather still plenty to do going through te nets doing repairs and Alec is down doing engine jobs keep that running sweet can't do much without an engine this part of the job is as important as catching the fish we took ice today and got the grub ready for another trip