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Click here for Photos of Cornwall Fishing video clips click here.Photos of just Four of Our Boats over the Thirty Years.
After many years and several other boats, "Charlynne II", 50ft overall with 250 hp she was a fine towing machine. Problems starting to crop up with the dreaded quotas, DTI safety surveys and general pressures that had very little to do with fish or fishing. I finally lost her one dark march night in deep water off Lundy Island. That's another story to tell as the crew and I were lucky to escape with our lives. My long suffering wife and son had finally had enough and I had to go into semi-retirement with a smaller boat working day trips. I hope you found this mildly interesting, though this site is obviously intended to try to sell, I hope to find the time to add another section at some time to give you some feel for life as a fisherman. I have fond memories of all my boats, even the ones not shown here, they all looked after me as I did them, at least I am still hear to tell the tale.
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Copyright © 1999 [Martins Seafresh]. All rights reserved.
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Our first boat
"Ocean Queen", old even then, had sunk and been salvaged, but at £50
delivered I couldn't resist (back in the late 60's). She was 24ft in length, no
engine and in a mess, but with lots of love and months of hard work, I
eventually took her to sea Long lining for dogfish (rock salmon) and conger
eels. Nearly lost her several times before I was persuaded that a better boat
was needed.
Our pride and joy, "Solea" (25ft) built from a bare hull in Mylor
boatyard, where I assisted with my labour to keep the costs down. The first
Fibreglass fishing boat in Newquay, first with a modern echo sounder and Vhf
radio. Continued to longline but Trawling gradually took over due to shortage of
bait when needed and gradual decline of the dogs in our area. 
Full
circle, I won't say my last boat, the " Rockhopper of Percuel ". Had
her for six years, 32ft with 135hp engine, small but perfectly formed. For her
size an excellent sea boat and good fishing machine. All the modern electronics,
2 vhf radios, telephone, radar, echo sounder, autopilot, 2 satellite navigators
all linked to a laptop computer. One click of the mouse and she would follow any
route I had put in the computer. Very sad to see her go but the shop was taking
over and I'm afraid fishing remains a young mans job, much as I love fishing
(the last of the hunters) I no longer have the stamina or the drive to fight the
mounting bureaucracy.
