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13. Laundry
Lady (starboard) is sitting close-hauled with sails luffing on a
not very crowded line in 10 knots.
Belching Boris
is starting on port and looks likely to be crossing Laundry
Lady (who is barely moving) by about one length. As the gun goes,
Laundry
Lady and Belching Boris are two lengths
apart. Laundry Lady pulls in his sails and
his boat leaps ahead, but he immediately has to bear away to avoid carving
up Belching Boris. |