He is, in many respects, one more boat on a rising tide.
Ben Arnold 8pm, Channel 4 TV's most twinkly couple, Prunella Scales and Timothy West, return to the water for more boat journeys.
He's probably watched more boat races than anyone else alive, and knows more about speeds of racing craft than the naval architect.
He cites government documents before the court accepting that the boat people were claiming refugee protection.India's intervention appears to have forced the government to break its election promise not to allow any more boat people to land in Australia.
And according to the Refugee Council of Australia the numbers heading for Australia are often overblown: Yemen received more than roughly 25 times more boat people than did Australia over the past six years.
He's probably watched more boat races than anyone else alive, and knows more about speeds of racing craft… Personality sketch of Makaroff whose Vamarie was first across the line in the New London Bermuda race.
But some scientists have speculated that the spill is driving wildlife toward the coast, crowding areas where there is more boat traffic and setting the stage for fatal accidents.
In a positive feedback loop, increased catches by commercial fishermen result in the purchase of more boats, which results in yet bigger catches and more boat purchases, and even bigger catches.
The week since the government's radical policy shift has seen more boat arrivals, the sinking of an asylum boat off Java, and allegations emerge of serious abuse in the temporary processing facility on Manus Island.
The Australian prime minister, John Howard, had intended to send more boat people to Nauru, or nearby Kiribati, after the Australian parliament passed laws last week empowering the navy to turn away boatloads of refugees bound for its waters.
