It's Tiger Woods auld tub and looks a bit like a Missippi paddle steamer wi oot the paddles; very broad beam, huge superstructure and very shallow draught, 6'.
Once the wind got on her beam, she sailed off at, I reckon, a knot or two and headed in our direction
Hersel' wasnae awfy pleased aboot this and when the captain appeared at the bow and offered a bottle of champagne with a bit of rope to lower it into our cockpit, hersel telt him tae stuff it where the sun don't shine and would he shift his tub away frae us forthwith. The Capt muttered there wasn't anywhere else he could park but would go away and think about it and the bottle of champers stayed whur it wus.
Ma'sel, ah wus a wee bit equivocal aboot this. Huving got Brian (it wus Fatipa's boat Stingo we wus oan) a new stanchion efter a Norwegian hud a bash at us in Tyrell Bay, I could see Stingo's Aries wind pilot getting wiped oot (no bad thing as ah wus huving great difficulty hauling hersel ontae ra boat as the swim ladder went when the Aries wus fitted) and, with a bit of luck, a new back end plus engine which would be an all round bonus, *if* he didnae move it and the champers would hae jist added the finishing touch tae ma haggis ..
He moved his boat back ... and, the next morning, came over with a bottle of White Star Moet, ra best, and apologised .. only himsel and 3 young girls as crew .... jings jings and jings
