Editing Polruan (section)

==Maritime links==
[[File:Lanteglos, boatyard at Polruan - geograph.org.uk - 48015.jpg|thumb|180px|Boats at Polruan]] The long legacy of shipbuilding continues today with Toms yard. Until recently the Fowey Harbour Pilots traditionally came from Polruan.  Pilotage for commercial shipping was carried out from open boats with the Pilots boarding the ships via a pilot ladder. The Fowey Pilots Association describes the work of the pilots.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://foweypilots.com|title=Fowey pilots|publisher=Foweypilots.com|access-date=28 August 2010}}</ref>

Polruan is one of a now increasing number of Cornish places to use lookouts to help marine craft in distress. Many lookout towers were demolished in the 1980s to save costs. Now, through the [[National Coastwatch Institution]] (NCI), a voluntary charity, many of the surviving old coastguard lookouts and towers are being re-staffed by qualified volunteers. The Old Coastguard Lookout at Polruan was among the first to be re-commissioned in this way. (The current [[His Majesty's Coastguard]] headquarters for cliff rescue, including the equipment store, is on St Saviour's Hill adjacent to the NCI Station, above the main village carpark. Exercises of the HM Coastguard continue.<ref name="telegraph"/>) The current Polruan NCI Station overlooks the Fowey estuary and also St Austell Bay beyond the village.<ref name="telegraph"/> It was constructed in the nineteenth century.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web|last=Beardsall|first=Jonny|title=For those in peril|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3664299/For-those-in-peril.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=28 August 2010|date=7 April 2007|archive-date=11 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611134132/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3664299/For-those-in-peril.html|url-status=live}}</ref>