The boat's out of the water, getting its hull blacked. I'm allowed to stay in my boat for the week.

The wharf worker's words and actions are in tension:
• "The hull's in good shape"
• He is now grinding the rust off.

On a steel narrowboat, there is nowhere Nowhere NOWHERE that the sound of a grinder on a steel hull doesn't reach. Think of a dentist's drill but LOUDER.

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I have booked a drydock for blacking the boat.

The bitumen blacking is "like paint" and keeps the hull from rusting away. Also below the waterline, the boat will get replacement anodes whose function is to rust away, instead of the steel hull rusting away.

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