Billy and I saw a number of fishing boats as we entered Mississippi, some of them safely moored in back waterways, some wrecked and beached.
A decade later, most of them would be safely moored in relationships of their own, free to resume (or not) innocent dealings with attached friends of the opposite sex.
The captain of the "Carroll" put a deckhand and the "harbormaster" on the barges, told them to throw off the line which barred the entrance to the slip; 171*171 but, before doing so, to make sure that the tier on Pier 52 was safely moored, as there was a strong northerly wind blowing down the river.
With the Maine safely moored in Spanish waters, the Spanish-American relationship was jolted by the publication in the New York Journal of a letter, intercepted by Cuban nationals, written by Enrique Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister to the United States.
The last Aquabelle dried off and returned to a family or friend, the last captive parachutist safely moored, the last duck dead in the shooting gallery, the last hamburger eaten, the last beer drunk, the last Rose of two summers back on the Main Stem, these are heavy thoughts.
Soon afterward, with the boat safely moored, Jason from St . Lucia Marine Parks and Services pulled up alongside to collect our mooring fee.
