Captain Phil Harris (28 page)

Phil “Dirt” Harris at age twenty aboard the
American Eagle
.

Phil (right) and fellow deckhands sorting the crab.

Mary, the beauty who caught Phil’s eye. The gold nugget necklace was a gift from him.

Phil and Mary enjoy a relaxing day. In this first picture taken of the couple, Phil was twenty-one and Mary was twenty-three.

Phil and Mary with her daughter, Meigon, two and a half years old.

Phil with his firstborn son, Josh, at just three months.

Phil and Josh in the wheelhouse.

Mary with two-and-a-half-year-old Josh. At this time she was pregnant with Jake.

All the kids, left to right: Shane, Meigon, Jake (a few months old), and Josh.

Josh, almost three, with his little brother Jake, four months.

Phil with Josh and Meigon at one of the many family outings Phil loved to coordinate.

Jake, one and a half, and Josh, four—“Ding and Dong,” as Phil sometimes affectionately referred to his boys in later years.

Captain Phil, twenty-nine, in the wheelhouse of the
Cornelia Marie
.

Captain Tony Lara, Phil’s close friend, on deck aboard the
Cornelia Marie
. Tony is the man who knows the
Cornelia Marie
better than anyone.