This Heiress Doesn't Fight Anymore novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Regatta
I looked at the envelope.
Then at the old sailor.
"It's your boat. You've won this race six times."
"And I'm seventy-nine, and my hands shake, and she's faster than anything I ever sailed." He tapped the envelope. "You moved the step. You know where she wants to go."
"I've never raced."
"You swam laps for eight years to beat other children. You'll manage."
Seth was leaning in the shed doorway.
"I'll trim," he said.
"I'm on the bow," Bess said from the railway. "I've been on the bow since I was nine. Nobody's taking the bow."
I looked at all of them.
"Okay," I said.
On Saturday morning the harbor was full of old wooden boats.
Schooners, yawls, sloops with brass portholes and sails the color of tea.
The wind was southwest and building, and the water off Fort Adams was all small white chop.
The committee boat was anchored off the fort, at the start line.
She was a hundred and twelve feet long, white, with a hot tub on her deck and a camera on her stern.
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