Tender Touch-Up
by Peter Nielsen
Jul 18, 2017
4 minutes
All last winter the faded red Achilles inflatable floated in an empty slip, a rose with its bloom most defi- nitely gone, abandoned, I was told, by a cruiser who’d moved up to a RIB. In the autumn gales she filled with rainwater and in the coldest New England months she cradled a massive block of ice within her tubes. Yet those same Hypalon tubes had held air for the six months she’d been floating there, and the Achilles pedigree had to count for something. I was looking for an inexpensive tender, and this one was free; perhaps she was worth saving.
One spring aft ernoon
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