The Sailor's Sin Bin by Theo Stocker

Author:Theo Stocker
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781399402866
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

-Push me pull you-

Phillip Cave

I used to sail my father’s cruising catamaran, but there was one weekend I would rather forget. The boat was on the slip in a Woodbridge boatyard having had a leak repaired – or so I thought. When I first arrived, the tide was low and I got aboard with the intention of sailing off at high water. I put a kedge out to the low water mark to allow me to pull the boat out from the slip on the morning high tide, tying the warp to the timber pushpit.

I spent the night on board and as the tide came up in the morning, I noticed water was coming into the boat – the leak wasn’t fixed!

When the boatyard arrived for work, they wanted to haul the boat up the slipway to take a look. The shipwright asked me if it was okay to start winching and I said yes.

There was a creaking sound, followed by a loud crack as the warp on the kedge tightened and clean pulled off the large timber pushpit. The shipwright and I just looked at each other, but I understood what his look meant – it meant, ‘You gave me the okay.’

Later that day, I made a difficult phone call to my father. At least someone was happy – the boatyard got a bit more work out of it!

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