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 Steve Blake's cabin cruiser, Vino Calypso, was docked at a marina in Bredon, Worcestershire, this past August when the rains came. The worst rains in modern British history. By the time they were over, Vino Calypso had become unmoored and was resting ten feet higher than normal.
The boat had become lodged on mooring posts when the waters receded and was sitting high in the air. "The boat is completely undamaged," Dorothy Denny, owner of the marina, told Metro.co.uk. "You could not have put it there if you tried." Nineteen other boats were sunk or stranded in a nearby meadow. "This week we took a boat down the river. As you travel down towards the Severn, the scene resembles a train crash.
"The devastation is littered across the fields. It is a tragic situation for the boating community.
"Workers are trying to get the boat down today. They are using a crane but it will be a nail-biting job." If the job weren't already precarious enough, the workers had to wait for the soil to harden up before they could even drive their crane near the dock.
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