Classic Boat

The look of love

know I love the look of her, the way her sheerline rises so boldly at the bow, and the playful kick as it leaves the transom, but I have never added up all the reasons why she is so precious, and all the little things that annoy me, including the way she contrives to crack my skull when I fail to stoop too low, or how she just will not decide which way she wants

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