Vanishing Trades

The Portuguese fishermen who still launch wooden boats at 4am

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They launch off the sand rather than from a harbour, which means eight men, two tractors and a great deal of shouting, every morning, in the dark.

We filmed three launches. The third one, the one in the film, went out in weather the crew would rather not have gone out in, and the footage from inside the boat is the reason this episode exists.