If you dislike someone, give them a boat

Boats are temperamental things. And when they go wrong - which they are apt to do - they cost an awful lot of money to fix.

"At least the price of oil should come down," I said to Jeff.

Going flat out at 20 knots or more is hardly the most fuel-efficient way to run a 42ft boat with two thirsty 320hp engines, but the sun was shining, the sea was calm and, what's more, both the engines, for once, were working to full capacity.

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