31 May
2002
31 May
'02
9:20 a.m.
Becalmed on an outgoing tide drove the message home.
My mother tells me that one of the worst afternoons of her life was bouncing about in a lively confused chop, becalmed on an outgoing tide, outside Ramsgate harbor in my dad's boat (he never owned an engine in his life). Giles Morris Arlington VA Vancouver 25 "Dolphin" Montgomery 15 "Umiaq" Sundry small craft