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the smallest boat with the audacity to boss around ships a hundred times its size

raw muscleHull crammed almost entirely with engine and torque
pulling powerCan drag tankers weighing hundreds of thousands of tons
flip riskTowlines can capsize them in seconds, called girting
word originFrom an old root meaning simply to pull
harbor heroMost big ships can't dock without one
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