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Having agreed the plan of action he throttled up his boat and we raced out to sea in the direction my boat had headed off. Very soon we were closing on it as he rigged up a sturdy rope to a large pink danbuoy.

We motored across the path my boat would take as it circled. Hamish threw out the danbuoy and attached rope and as he motored forward the rope floated up to the surface in a long line stretched across the path of my boat.

My boat came charging round and motored right up to and onto the rope. Suddenly the rope went taught – we had hooked my boat all right, but the rope had caught above the prop and not fouled it or sheared it off. We now had my boat straining to go in one direction like a hooked fish. My boat thrashed and the sea churned at its stern as the prop tried to force it on its way. It wasn’t going anywhere against the weight and power of Hamish’s far larger boat – but we couldn’t do anything with it.

Eventually Hamish cast off the rope and my boat immediately leapt forward and went about its way again. We pulled in the rope and buoy wondering what to do next.