Word: boated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promotional tour sponsored by the Sun, a London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile from the harbor when something went very wrong. "All of a sudden there was the shock of the boat shaking and listing," recalled Passenger Rosina Summerfield. "It continued to fall over until it was completely flat on its side. The people were screaming...
...Michel was getting his architectural experience," Janis recollects, "but we both wanted to go to the States. We thought with a boat we could work our way there and take our house with us. We were going to do a family thing. We were going to go on a little trip, and then we were going to live like everybody else. I don't like surprises. I planned Brendan three years after Sean, so we decided we would leave with two kids. Michel and I both had our appendixes out. Michel had his wisdom teeth out." Having seen to these...
...next morning. At midnight, they could see land. With scant instruction -- he had had a couple of lessons in 1976 -- Michel was now a credible yachtsman, and a diesel mechanic and carpenter to boot, what with all the breakdowns that never cease on a boat -- any boat, ask anyone...
Mullets jumped in the river as Janis talked one recent winter afternoon. Dolphins glided gracefully by. It is an economical life, she conceded, pointing to a 5-gal. canister on the deck. Normally the thing would hold weed killer, but on this boat, it holds fresh water. "That's the shower," Janis said. "Two people can bathe with it if you don't wash your hair." This was as far as she got on the subject of economy...
Then the breadwinner sighed and spoke of work. "A week or two of vacation. Be there on time. I can survive because I have my family, my boat and my house with us. My toothbrush stays in the same place, but I don't have to. We have no future. Zero. Plans for retirement, zero. Plans for college for the kids, zero. I can tell you maybe three months ahead, but no more. We realize thinking too much about tomorrow can destroy today." A dolphin plashed, and Michel said, "I have a very small house but a very big garden...