"The Captains Master" wrote:

Donal, I've lived on the waterfront or no more than two blocks from it
all my life.
I've biult canoes from old corrugated iron filling the holes and seams
with tar scabbed from the roadside on hot summer days. Fished with a
Eucalypt branch and a piece of string, played at Ozzie Tom Sawyer all
my teen years and then some, rowed hundreds of miles in a clinker
built rowing skiff, built sailed and won in my own dinghys, scows and
yachts from 8 years old (yes, I built a Manly Junior dinghy at 8 with
help from my grandfather, a master builder and carpenter of renown
here in Oz).....

I guess you have to buy and XXXL Greek Captain's hat for your swollen
head? guffaw

LP