Journal
Notes from the yard
Short entries from the quay ledger, written by the crew when the wireless is dull.
The tar pot at the gate
Why every visitor signs the board by the tar pot before they walk the length.
Counting turns with Nell
Apprentice Nell Fitch counts her first thousand turns, and what the counting is really for.
The winter the Brant froze
January 1963, when the river stopped and the ropewalk kept three walks a day anyway.
What the 1988 fire saved
The iron cabinet, the ledgers back to 1891, and the rule Ruth reads aloud every ledger day.
The jack has a name
Why the 1919 hand-turned jack is called the Iron Widow, and what it has taken since 1919.
Nineteen forty-six and the wireless
The wireless bought in 1946 that has sat on the forming top ever since.