The Sea Pony by Ellen Potter

Author:Ellen Potter
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

We walked down to the wharf, and Dad helped me into the skiff, which is a little boat that you take to get to your lobster boat. Except something strange was going on.

“Hey, wait a minute!” I said. “This isn’t our skiff.”

This skiff was a plain aluminum rowboat. Our skiff is bright blue and it’s shaped like a banana. We’ve had it for as long as I can remember. It’s practically a member of our own family.

“Remember that storm we had last night?” Dad asked.

I nodded. “It was a wicked bad gullywhumper.”

That’s what my mom calls a big storm.

“It was,” Dad agreed. “In fact, it was such a gullywhumper that our skiff broke free of its moorings and was swept away. I’m borrowing this one until I buy a new one.”

Oh no! Poor old blue skiff! I thought about it getting tossed around in the storm in the middle of the night. Now it was all alone, lost in the big wide ocean. My heart felt achy.

“We have to look for it, Dad,” I said.

“I looked for it all morning,” he replied.

“But did you look everywhere?”

“Everywhere I could think of. I’m afraid it’s a goner.”

You know what I really can’t stand?

I really can’t stand gullywhumpers.

Dad rowed us out to our red-and-white lobster boat, the Tiger Shark, which was moored in the harbor. He tied up the rowboat to the mooring, and then he lifted me inside the Tiger Shark. Our lobster boat is not very big, and she’s not fancy, like the lobster boat Allie O’Malley’s dad owns. But Dad says the Tiger Shark reminds him of me…very loud and fast as a rocket.

Sometimes the ocean is full of bumpy waves. Today, though, it was flat as a plate as Dad steered the Tiger Shark out of the harbor. I took a big gulp of air. It tasted like salty pennies.

“Ready to get to work, Piper?” Dad called back to me.

“I was born ready, boss!” I said in a deep voice.

That’s the way I talk when I’m sternman.

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