Katherine’s Reviews > The Boat Who Wouldn't Float > Status Update

"Once beyond Cap Gaspe',and properly into the estuary of the mighty St. Lawrence River, our progress slowed from a healthy snail's pace, to that of a badly crippled one."

"One night, long, long ago, a giant blue whale made the mistake of trying to take a shortcut though the tickle, and got stranded. He was in trouble, but so were the human residents. They knew that if he died and decomposed where he was, there would be no living in the place for years to come. Either he or the people had to go."

"She seemed like a toy boat in the midst of all that machinery, dwarfed into insignificance by the Sandy Point on the adjoining slip."

"As we drove away from the land a kind of peace came over us. The bullgine rumbled and the exhaust smoke rolled out of the cabin into our faces."

"It is a windswept, desolate little village whose grey wooden houses straggle dismally around the edge of a broad harbor."

"According to mythology the virtue of these engines lies in the fact that they are simple and reliable. Although this myth is widely believed I am able to report that it is completely untrue. These engines are, in fact, vindictive, debased, black-minded ladies of no virtue and any non-Newfoundlander who goes shipmates with one is either a fool or a masochist, and is likely both."