"As a baby, he was already thinking about fishing, almost before he could even talk," Rinaldi"s mother, Jacqueline, told me. During her pregnancy, she said that she avoided passing anywhere near the harbour. "I didn"t want him to have the desire," she recalled, knowing from her husband how all-consuming a passion fishing could be. Her efforts quickly proved futile. "Even in a pram, Eric was always drawn towards his father, the port and the boat," she said.