In the late spring, in a day of swinging sea with long waves, while the boat was entering in the port, it was suddenly raised on a wave hunchback and deposited on a rock in front of the shipyard.

I perfectly remember the scene because I was casually close to the photographer.

After a time that seemed to me an eternity, while the boat was sluggishly overthrowing on a side, with the stern board by now near the surface of water and the crew losing the balance (in that moment I heard the release of the camera) a successive big wave resumed the boat and brought it back it in the same free waters from which it was taken.

The astonishment of the photographer was so great that he didn’t neither have the time to release another picture and I was so surprised by the scene that I didn’t nor remember exactly who he was.

In the meantime the boat berthed intact to the dock without any damage except a scrapping on the keel’s brass band.

In the background of the picture, we see a large cargo boat hauled in the yard for repairs: she was the Yildiran of Turkish nationality, stopped and seized with a smuggled cigarette cargo in front of Camogli.