A struggling fishing business run by the Collinsworth family are fighting to survive. By a casual meeting in The Fishermen`s Rest con men try to bribe the firm out of its little available cash. The family are determine that only Collinsworths should hold shares; a leading member of the family has an affair with a rival who acquires fifty per cent of the business. Read how the crooks are defeated, how a marriage brings a wealthy financier into the family before a divorce, how hard work and a little bit of luck takes the business from a "one ship" concern in the 1920`s to one of the leading fishing businesses on the east coast in the 1980`s...and the family remain in control. The many characters, sub plots and "twists and turns" bring constant surprises.