Life is pleasant and quiet on Standard Quay. We are moored just ahead of Repertor and Henry and behind Raybel where Matt every day patching hull and tarring. He is going to sell his flat in order to pay for the ungoing maintenance. What are we complaining about?
The other day however, Lady of the Lea tried to moor next to Repertor. We were blissfully unaware of the impending impact, sipping a cup of tea with Ray, a Gardner engines expert, trying to extract from him how much he would charge to overhaul our engine, when "Bang!" we were nearly knocked off our seats. Rushing out on deck we found the bow of Lady of the Lea had rammed our port rear quarter! Miraculously, no great damage other than scraped paint. We secretely felt quite smug as we had successfully turned round Wilhelmina only a few minutes earlier.
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