"My grandfather, when he was a boy, they used to have skiffs. You didn't have no big boats. Twenty foot, might be a foot more, or less.
My grandfather, when he was a boy you see, they used to have these little lugs out on the skiffs, and they used to go what you called 'curbing' for fish, because you had the curbs.
When we used to go out night time after the war there would be like three of us out because the others sort of had jobs and that. You wouldn't see practically anybody else out there, because they were all older.
We used to go out say about four o' clock and the first haul was pulled in and brought up and then you'd come home, get home about seven o' clock in the morning.
But then you'd be up at twelve or one and mend the nets for the afternoon, have a beer. But you could still go anywhere in the harbour until D-Day come up, and they closed the harbour. Nobody else went by my father and that, he went up to Christchurch."