She put the coffee cup down on the edge of the chart table, carefully, so that it would not slide.
"Tell me about Friday," she said.
"It's in the report."
"I'd like to hear it from you."
He looked at her for a long moment, and then he looked out the window, and then he told it to her, in the flat, orderly, slightly formal voice that captains used for marine inquiries, the voice she had heard dozens of times from the other side of a table. The Haverford guests had been aboard for the last weekend of the season, the owner's two adult sons and their friends, eight in all. They had used the tender all day Friday, out to Castle Hill for lunch and over to Jamestown and around Brenton Point in the afternoon to look at the big houses from the water. They had come back late in the afternoon and gone ashore for dinner. The plan had been to lift the tender onto the foredeck that evening and secure it for sea, so as to be ready to depart Monday. He had commenced the lift at approximately nineteen-thirty. The bosun was at the crane controls. Deckhand Ogilvy was on the foredeck, handling the tender's bow line, guiding it onto the cradle. As the tender came up level with the bulwark, the safety pin of the shackle connecting the lifting bridle to the crane hook backed out, the shackle opened, the forward lifting point let go, and the tender's bow dropped and swung inboard, and Ogilvy was caught between the tender's hull and the cradle. They had lowered the tender to the deck, administered first aid, called 911 at approximately nineteen-fifty, and the deckhand was transported to Newport Hospital and subsequently to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. The failed shackle had been retained. The crane had been taken out of service. Root cause, failure of an inadequately secured shackle pin. Corrective action, replacement of the shackle with a safety-bolt type and a review of the vessel's lifting procedures.
When he was done, the wheelhouse was quiet except for the faint whine of the electronics and, very far off, the halyards ringing on A dock.
"That's the report," she said.
"That's what happened."
"Hamish was registered at the Newport Hospital emergency department at twenty-three thirty-eight."
He did not move at all. She watched him not move.