Page 24 - Pushing off at Wreck Cove Shore

ISSUE : Issue 25

Published by Ronald Caplan on 1980/6/1

The boats are drawn up over poles laid down before the incoming vessel. Sometimes the winch engine would fail. And even when it didn't, if the shore was bad men would rush forward before the winch could take up the slack, grab hold of the boat and take her away from the sea (as in the top right photo below).

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