The Three Day Knot
Somewhere between Jersey and Guernsey the engine gave up. A lifeboat collected us and I spent three unexpected days ashore while repairs of questionable legitimacy took place. Sailors learn quickly that if a thing works, it wasn’t stupid.
Rope remembers strange journeys.
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