Sinking Boat Saves the Day

Sinking Boat Saves the Day

Andrew and Ollie are two sixteen year old boys, it is their summer

holidays at the moment; and they have been enjoying it to the limits

in the small town of Polperro where they live on the southern Cornish

coast. They had spent the majority of the summer out at sea in

Andrews’s dads’ motor boat catching mackerel. But it all had to stop

one week because of the typical English weather- there had been severe

storms in Cornwall, and the sea has been extremely rough. This of

course meant that it was far too un-safe for Ollie and his friend

Andrew to go out in the boat, as there could be numerous dangers

facing them. This was not a risk their parents were going to take as

there had already been a sinking the day before when a fishing vessel

was on its way back home, and into the harbour. But before it could

reach anywhere near to land, it was capsized, causing it to lose its

catch of that day, and for its occupants, three men, to be flung over

board. Luckily though, for them, the lifeboat arrived in time to pick

them out of the water and to get them back to dry, safe, land.

So instead of going out to sea, Andrew and Ollie spent there time

sulking, as they only have a few days left until they have to go back

to their first year of college, which means coursework, exams, and

even more coursework. Andrew had been staying at Ollie’s house for

most of the week playing with him on his brand new computer that his

dad had got him for his birthday. Ollie’s dad now lives in America,

because of his career expansion- he got a job opportunity in America,

and Ollie’s mum, Cathy, was not prepared to move to a completely

different lifestyle; so instead they got divorced, and Ollie and Cathy

now live on their own in a cottage in Cornwall.

Besides playing on the computer, Ollie and Andrew also did a variety