Complete New Tales of Para Handy (2011)
“In part it stems from the struggle with the common enemy, the sea, which unites all those who go about their living upon it, whether on a crack transatlantic liner or an inshore fishing dorey.
What particularly binds the puffer crews on the Firth, however, is an even deeper tie than that.
It is the need to show solidarity against the slings and arrows of outrageous disdain to which they are all too often subjected by those ‘establishment’ figures who see their own calling or their own position in... the marine hierarchy as being inherently superior to the humbler workhorses of the river.
Such solidarity has rarely been better demonstrated than by an episode which occurred recently in East Loch Tarbert and news of which has now filtered through to Glasgow. The Vital Spark, of course, was well and truly involved in events, although Para Handy insists that her role was that of supporter rather than instigator.
Given her reputation, coupled with Hurricane Jack’s presence on board in Dougie’s absence on leave (his wife was on the point of presenting him with their twelfth child), I have my doubts about that.MoreLess
What particularly binds the puffer crews on the Firth, however, is an even deeper tie than that.
It is the need to show solidarity against the slings and arrows of outrageous disdain to which they are all too often subjected by those ‘establishment’ figures who see their own calling or their own position in... the marine hierarchy as being inherently superior to the humbler workhorses of the river.
Such solidarity has rarely been better demonstrated than by an episode which occurred recently in East Loch Tarbert and news of which has now filtered through to Glasgow. The Vital Spark, of course, was well and truly involved in events, although Para Handy insists that her role was that of supporter rather than instigator.
Given her reputation, coupled with Hurricane Jack’s presence on board in Dougie’s absence on leave (his wife was on the point of presenting him with their twelfth child), I have my doubts about that.MoreLess
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