What’s the trade off?

We all imagine that we are alone on our boats. Gently swaying at anchor, with the sun shining down, lulls us into a false sense of having some sort of force field enveloping you. So it can come as a rather rude awakening when all it takes is a loud TAP-TAP-TAP “Hullo, ahoy there!” on the hull to remind us that we are not quite so solitary after all.

‘I stepped up and out into our cockpit, only to be faced with a 200ft