Now there are lots of sensible questions to ask about a boat, but precious few regarding removable ballast, a useful commodity you wouldn't want to jettison unless you were intending to replace it with something equally useful but of potentially greater value. I pulled up the floorboards and showed him where the pig iron was secured and how it might be removed or repositioned. He was pleased. I told him I preferred to wait till I got to shore. I've got the cash in the car.
Tens are nice.
But I think I'd like to get them at the bank. Not neatly folded or bound, just loose and mushed down. The exchange at the bank was uneventful. This was 1976, and our teller was not fazed by a couple of scraggly looking guys, one of whom had two shopping bags full of small bills. We drove back to the boat and he helped me load everything I owned in the whole world into eight small cartons.