How to Get into a Boat, Tango-Style

Getting into a low boat from a dock is a trick.

Me before tango:

You bend over and put one hand next to your foot on the dock. Then you put one foot in the boat, and then the boat drifts away from the dock and you have to sort of drag it back with the foot that is in the boat, using the muscles of your inner thigh, and then you, quick, before it floats away again, do whatever it takes to get your other foot into the boat. You look like a beetle's gracelss cousin. Sometimes you look like a beetle's soaked, seaweed-covered cousin.

Now

Now I step lightly onto the edge, move my center, collect ever so briefly and hop down ionto the boat.