Love And Saffron Rice

Kapoor’s story was like a lot of others who end up working and living in the world of yachts.

Kapoor was born in India. He snuck aboard a freighter in Chennai bound for France. His uncle, a crewman, let him stay in his cabin during the voyage. Kapoor was a stowaway. After arriving in France, he wandered up and down the coast looking for work. A yacht captain gave him a job as a day worker washing his boat. All along the coast, workers, backpackers, out of work crew, do day work on the yachts. Generally, the crew has many other more important things to do and having an extra couple of hands helps keep the yacht Bristol. It wasn’t long before he learned all the skills needed to become a good day worker. Varnishing became his business. Varnishing is one of those skills that almost anyone can do, but to do it exceptionally well, that is rare. He was an expert varnisher. He had built up a fine reputation among the yacht captains. I, as a yacht captain and a pretty experienced varnisher myself can attest, Kapoor was nothing less than magical with a varnish brush in his hand.

I had hired him several times of the course of years to varnish my boats. I liked him. He was stuck in Sardinia after his flight was cancelled because of technical troubles with the plane. He traveled there on a yacht finishing a big varnish job on a new 30-meter sailboat. The captain gave him a ticket and shoved off to Greece. I offered to give him a lift.

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