The crew
People of the yard
Eleven names on the roll, and every one of them has tar on their hands by Friday.
Marta Garrow-Osei
Fourth of her line on the walk. Sets the pace from the forming top and does not count turns; she hears when one is missed.
Dan Petrosyan
Thirty years on the bench. Reads a worn rope the way an optician reads a chart, and has never yet been wrong twice about the same line.
The three at the jack
Bert Cotter, Ivy Marsh and Kofi Adjei. Between them, 71 years of turning hooks. Ivy holds the yard record for a single unbroken walk, 211 metres in one pass.
The four on the former
Nell Fitch, Sam Odum, Priya Nayar and Thomas Weir. Nell is in her second year and already topping on the noon walk.
Ruth Voss-Brennan
Keeps the ledger, the post and the proof-crane numbers. If a rope has a story, it is in her hand before it is in anyone’s mouth.
The newest name
Hired this autumn, name not yet on the roll until the first solo walk. The yard does it the old way: earn the entry.