you had to bail every day because the wooden boats were so leaky, in 1974 a woman gave me her boat for fifteen pounds because she'd come to hate it. I bailed both boats every day and got hers fixed up, then sold it for three thousand pounds and took off to South America but my lodger sublet my boat and the sub-letter wouldn't bail - I got a call to say the boat had sunk but I still had the mooring and a thousand pounds so I bought this boat - this one's got a steel hull.
The Dream Songs as Epic.
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As I said back in 2014, John Berryman is one of my favorite American poets,
and I welcome the imminent appearance of Only Sing: 152 Uncollected Dream
Songs...
8 hours ago
Wow! That's really leaky! Hint: automatic bilge pump.
ReplyDeleteA friend bought a used 36-foot sailboat that had an automatic bilge pump that had to be operated manually. I corrected the sensor switch wiring and he was very, very happy.
I think you'd have been very popular on the London moorings during the bailing perod
DeleteReality takes the romance out of everything. Sort of.
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I think the drugs (plus extreme youth and daftness)helped keep the romance going in those days
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