Ruth Pearson having crashed us into a sandbank, drastic measures were called for and great sacrifice. Mike Evans, in heroic posture, is saving the crew from death by boredom. Note that instead of standing by with life buoys, ropes etc., the entire crew were poised with cameras 'just in case'.

The barge represented an awful lot of tonnage and only came away from those sandbanks REAL slow; slow enough for me to inch my way back up the pole and fall back onboard - much to everyone's groans of disappointment. That's why there's no follow up photo of yours-truly floundering - I haven't destroyed the film! The only one to go in I think was Jacky, the most sporty of us all and therefore the one that most deserved to ....

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