It's a very windy day and a Waveney-class lifeboat, the 13-metre motor-yacht GRYPHON from Hilo in Hawaii, has sought shelter in the upper reaches of the Clyde River, right across from Riverbend.
According to GOOGLE, it was built in 1982 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in the U.K. who in 1998 sold it to the Kaikoura Coastguard in New Zealand. They in turn sold it in 2005 to Thomas Carpenter of Laupahoehoe in Hawaii who, with his wife and dog, is making his way up the east coast to Brisbane, from where they will transport their yacht on a Float-On/Float-Off ship to Ensenada in Mexico, thence up the West Coast of the USA to Alaska for the summer.
I've hailed them but so far no response. Once the winds have died down, I shall put on my Nelligen Yacht Club cap and row across to introduce myself as its commodore and only member.
