How to move a boat
Jun 23, 2022
3 minutes
PETE GOSS
ositioned high up in the middle of a Cornish village, I delicately wrestle a telephone wire over the cockpit arch. A curtain is hauled back to reveal a tousled and formidable lady in a dressing gown, fag in one hand and raucous mobile in the other. She looks up and down, draws a hollow cheeked drag and exhales with a croaky, ‘What ya doin?’ Hitched up to a tractor with inches has provided another fond memory that keeps me chuckling for the rest of the perilous journey to the waterfront.
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