There speaks some one who acually owns or grew up with a boat.
Me, What do you mean you can't paint the boat while it is still in the water??? ;-)


>We are not told what the ladder is hanging from, and we are not told that the boat is floating in the water. It'd be weird to paint the boat with it still in the water.
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>>Agreed- except one might also (correctly) observe that we were not told from whence the ladder hangs... a wharf, perhaps?