Weather, nets, what ran early and what did not run at all. Written mostly by Captain Vasilis and transcribed by whoever could hear him from the path.
Why the sardines ran three weeks early this season, what a hard northerly does to a longline overnight, and what both of those things mean for the May board.
How the catch is split between Vasilis, Petros and the Theoharis family on a morning when only one of them got out — and why nobody has ever needed a written agreement about it.
Marina’s film photographs of an ordinary morning at the Houlakia steps: crates, ice, the walk up the path, and the board being written at 09:30.
Three storms in February moved sand off two of the rocky patches Vasilis has fished since he was fourteen. He is not worried. He explains why at some length.
What actually landed, by boat, across a week — including the weeks when the answer is almost nothing. A menu that depends on weather ought to be honest about weather, and this is where we are honest about it.
Vasilis has fished this coast since he was fourteen and remembers seasons the way other people remember years. Most of this section is him talking and one of us writing quickly, which is why the sentences run long.