Seeing a mast sticking up out of the water where a boat should be is an awful shock.
I’d been off the island. On my first day back I walked down to the marina, and noticed a thick green rope running up the far side of the marina wall. I looked to where it was coming from, and realised that , the bonny wooden fishing boat which sat along the hammerhead, had gone… then I saw her mast emerging from the water.