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In the morning, I like to get up early. Usually I'm asleep before anybody else, and consequently get up early, too. Also, since it's my boat, I worry about what might happen at night, and I'm well sensitized to her motion, to changes in the wind or current. These things can rearrange the whole harbor, depending on who has out how much scope. Realistically, when the weather's nice, you just want 4:1 or 5:1, but you can bet that nervous guys with big boats and small experience will be using 8:1 on a calm night. That's worse than being overaggressive, because in a flat calm, all the boats don't react equally to slight winds, and of course keelboats follow the tidal current whatever the wind, so collisions can result in the middle of the night, if you're not careful. That makes me get up a couple of times a night, on average.

I don't pull on my shorts: it's hot and we're all fast friends, anyway. I've seen the girls sunbathing topless, and there's been the occasional strip poker game, so going topside in the middle of the night for a leak or a look around classifies as private *quot;enough*quot; not to bother to get dressed. Besides it's dark so there's nothing much to see, anyway. I think she saw the other night, though.

It was nearly a full moon and I was going up to check things out and I thought I heard her stir. Once back, and in my bunk, she moved again, I was sure of it. I opened my eyes