a small confession

There has been a small addition to our little fleet.

But I didn't build it and it doesn't sail

or row.

So if you are a hardline sailor 

you might want to stop reading now.

And if you think I've slipped over the edge

I understand.

It's been fun to have your interest.

I can cope with the music thing (he said)

and even the dogs and cows.

But I did come for the dinghy stuff,

the type with string and sails.

I've bought a swimming platform 

that can cruise around the lakes.

It is of the displacement type

and I'm going to avoid even a hint of iambic pentameter and glimmers of rhyme

just for this line.

Thing is,

the price was such that with some work it will appreciate

(and I get to keep the other boats for now)

and have fun swimming off the back

while I give the insides

a jolly good refit. 

So here is Bandicoot

8.3 m Hartley 

Bondwood cruiser

from the 1960's