Today was exhausting. I didn’t have to get up and make breakfast though; Marcia did it, eggs, bacon and potatoes. I admit that she is better, she knows how to serve a crowd, I’m just worried about not having enough for the whole year. I took Jesse to the store to help me carry things; we got more free bread, even croissants this time.
Our fish arrived, it was amazing, about 45 kilos for 45 euros. I showed the guy around the boat, Baron asked if the other crate of fish on the dock was for us and we got it as well! In the long run we got two and a half cases of fish, he also later came back with pickled, smoked and dried herring, smoked salmon, anchovies in garlic and a few other fishy things. All of that for only 45 euros, but there was a lot of work we had to do to the fish.
Baron and I went on to the fore deck with the crates of fish, a cutting board, bowls for guts and heads and best of all, a hatchet. The heads got whacked off in three stokes and I pulled out the guts and flopped it into another bin. Some of the guts were crunchy so we concluded that crab was their last meal, there was also some starfish among the fish. It took us at least an hour just to behead and de gut. Then we got a few more hands, Jesse, Laura, Richard to start washing and then cutting off the fins and tails. They were stacked on trays, wrapped in cling film and into the freezer they went. Everything was done by 1600, we had gotten them around 1000, six hours of work for all that fish, there are at least 300 fish.
We also got off the dock around lunch time and are headed for Cowes, UK.
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