The Service & Team: Cornwall Council’s Maritime Section is seeking to appoint a full-time Harbour Master for the Port of Penryn and Prince of Wales Pier, Falmouth. This role presents an exciting opportunity to significantly contribute to the management and development of the community Port of Penryn and Falmouth’s historic pier. The Role: The Harbour […]
During the past week our in house Maritime Maintenance team, based at Truro supported, Harbour Master Paul Vincent and shipwrights from Working Sail at Bude with replacing timber on the inner gates. The balance beams were repaired and two large timbers replaced, these being shaped on site. The timber used was English Oak and will
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Having been cleared of mud earlier this year the Port of Truro has purchased and installed a section of pontoon to support the use of the facility. It is hoped the pontoon length will be extended ahead of the 2025 season with monies from the Port of Truro Reserve Account, which is ringfenced for the
Pontoon installed at Boscawen Park Slipway Read More »
The Blue Litter Project is a marine litter collection campaign that is across Cornwall helping track and collect litter from Cornwall’s remote marine spaces. During the summer season our Patrol Boat staff at the Port of Truro have been collecting marine litter as they go about their daily patrol duties. Clean Cornwall began the project
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Further to the installation of a weather station at Malpas Marina and Penzance we have now added a unit to Bude Harbour. The information can be viewed by clicking this link or via the David Weatherlink App on your mobile device.
Bude Harbour Weather Station Read More »
Penzance was blessed with a glorious late summer day for the visit of the Worlds Last Seagoing Paddle Steamer, the Waverley. The visit was the first passenger sailing from Penzance by the ship which had previously visited in 1986 for repairs by the then Holman & Sons Dry Dock business whilst on passage. Arriving from
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