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Using the archives of his family, the author reconstructs the life (private and professional) of the different branches of a family of ship owners and ship masters, since the middle of the eighteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The last captain lived the transition from sail to stem and put an end to the seafaring tradition in the family. This dynasty was rooted in Lloret de Mar, a town in the Catalan coast, north to Barcelona, with a very strong tradition of seafaring and shipbuilding in the Age of Sail, that failed to do the transition to steam navigation and disappeared as a maritime community in the last quarter of the XIX century, with only fishing as a main activity before tourism. The book, using primary sources, gives us an inside of the life in a typical Catalan sailing community, including an interesting approach to family lives and the ship master wives’ role.