Cool italics, dudes. And if you're wondering, Matthew, bold is created in the same way as italic, only use a b instead of an i.
Line breaks, of which I forgot one above, are [br], only with angle brackets.
Dunno what the song is called, "Lower The Boat Down" works for me. I have a clear recollection of Gordon saying of the 'yawl boat' that it was a small flat boat, "very easily sunk", used to tow the main ship into the harbor, and for transport of goods. Not in this case, as Steve rightly says, a double masted boat with the rear mast abaft of the wheel. I had the sense that it was even (horrors) motorized.
Blessings,
Barbara