Downstream

moored sailing boats at
Wapping, when Jonathan
managed to grab a rope and
Matthew a rudder. They then
reached the stilts of a
riverside boardwalk, pulled
round to a little creek, and
climbed a ladder on to a road.
‘I would have carried on if I
hadn’t managed to get out at
Wapping,’ says Matthew,
‘there are big warehouses so
the next place I would have
been able to get out would