Mr.Trapp took the helm.

It turned out that he owned a share in the vessel and worked her from Midsummer to Michaelmas with a crew of two men and a boy.

The men were called Isaac and Morgan (I cannot remember their other names), the one extremely old and surly, the other cheerful, curly-haired and active, and both sparing of words.

I was to be the boy.
We baited our hooks and whiffed for mackerel as we tacked out of the Sound.

And by and by we came to what Isaac called the "grounds" (though I could see nothing to distinguish it from the rest of the sea) and cast anchor and weighted our lines differently and caught a few whiting while we ate our dinner.