It’s perfect, but…
Aug 24, 2020
4 minutes
Words and
photography by
DAVE LEWIS
AS SKIPPER JJ HADDEN flicked off the last mooring line and stepped into the wheelhouse to pilot Ice Maiden out of the claustrophobic, concrete-encased lock chamber of Cardiff Bay Barrage, he said: “There are smoothhounds everywhere at the moment and both the weather and the tide are perfect. You’re going to fill your boots; I hope you have got plenty of crabs?”
In response there was silence, not a whisper, and the look on the crew’s faces told the story. No, they didn’t have plenty of crabs.
“I’ve got some frozen crabs, but not
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