
- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Longtime fisherman and Sointula resident Jon Taylor dishes up hilarious yarns from his life off northern Vancouver Island.
Capturing the "rough but reasonable" freedom of Malcolm Island, Jon Taylor recounts the bizarre but enticing lifestyle of a fisherman and his remote community—"haywire tightwads" for skippers, rotten fish in the hold that become "three thousand humpies in a warm, pink soup," and the kind of integrity you don't often see.
Jon Taylor's family history on Malcolm Island extends back to 1917, when Taylor's Finnish grandparents planned to move to the community of Sointula, to live among fellow expats who shared a language and a dream. However, Taylor recounts, upon seeing the island they promptly changed their minds and moved to Cuba. Taylor himself moved to Malcolm Island in 1976 and became a steadfast resident, embracing the fishboat life, for better or worse, aboard seiners, gillnetters and his own troller. Taylor captures a classic but now-disappearing way of life in its heyday with his vibrant and amusing vignettes.
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Table of contents
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- There Is an Island
- Employment Insurance
- You Get Used To It
- Walking Home
- Cowboy
- Big Set
- Home Cooking
- How You Use It
- Fish Slime and Personal Hygiene
- Trolling in the Fog
- Noises
- Viewfinder
- Under the Table
- Appliances
- Outhouse
- Call Home
- Pretty Girls
- Clean Up Your Act
- Justice
- Tender
- Haywire Tightwad
- New Age Feminist
- JJ
- Integrity
- Waiting for the Tide to Turn
- The Skipper and the Stripper
- A Question of Smarts
- Lucky
- Nekkid Women
- War Story
- Clothes Make the Man
- Getting Ready for the Old Days
- Epilogue
- Types of Fishing Vessels and Their Crew
- A Glossary of Some Useful Terms
- About the Author