Tagged: canal

I was cleaning the windlass wrong, running the rag along the square end instead of the shaft, and I didn't notice till I'd taken half the brass off with it. My hands were somewhere else. I kept…

I was coiling the mooring rope wrong the whole time Denny was talking, over-under instead of over-over, and by the time he finished I had about four feet of it tangled into something like a fist.…

Marion heard the engine first. A narrowboat, she thought, some idiot running late for the Sallow Lock before the paraffin lamp went out at ten. The diesel chug carried flat across the water, the way…