13 Turtle in Paradise“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.”—Norton Juster
By the time we were in Barkley Sound, I was feeling a bit better. I had put Saga to work compiling a complete dossier on Tombolo, his business connections, and any dirt she could find on him.
When I went on deck, it was dawn, and a thin mist was rising off calm water. Aphrodite was right behind us, and I could see Billy at the wheel. Soon we were at Turtle Island, and the anchor chain was rattling out over the drum. Joe set the anchor in reverse, then shut down the engine.
Under maritime law, we had a right to claim salvage of the Adonis, and given that she was abandoned, we might well end up owning her. But that seemed really trivial to me.
We locked up
