“STOP HER JOE!"
   By John B. Walsh

Merasheen boys learned to be expert at running around the harbour in the family motor boat. Perhaps Donald Pomroy led the rest because that old Atlantic engine would just roll over and over way longer than most Acadia engines. Donald was also hyper-sensitive to the engine's sound and he knew, to a. percentage better than Ivory 5now soap, when to flick the switch or timer to put her in reverse for that final split second manoeuver.

Joseph Hann also enjoyed the forward and reverse procedure so much, that even after luffing-up the skiff and now close to the wharf, he would continue to do the switch on, switch off, switch on routine.

One day when they arrived back from a run and I, John Walsh, had already grabbed the slippery wharf railing to stop the boat, Joe once again went into reverse and sort of hung me out to dry. My hands wrapped onto the wharf and my toes hooked on the gunwale of the skiff. It was while I was in this predicament that we heard and still remember the saying, ‘Stop her Joe, before I falls overboard!’