This work restores the construction of maritime songs by an entire people constituted and constituting themselves as such by the Elders, the singers, a diatonic accordion player, an old lady at the hospice, without forgetting the sailors, the fishermen, in a movement which links through the voices the maritime wave, the air and the quay: each and every one sings "to pass the time": that is to say to keep a tradition alive, to give what she or he has received after having integrated and interpreted it, thanks also to the ferrymen, of whom are the present authors.