14 min read The day Lambert Cobb became unmoored was a fine day, if memory serves. Let's place it close to the beginning of June, likely trap berth day, symbolic to the fishers of Fogo Island as they dropped the buoys that marked their family fishing berths and thus the seasonal launch of the centuries-old inshore cod fishery. Lambert's daughter, Zita, might have been 10 or possibly older: the account bends itself to lore in her retelling.