Huffin’ Puffin

The Huffin Puffin

When Remus Carey inherited the Huffin’ Puffin from his father it was a regular fishing boat. This served his purpose perfectly as it gave him a plausible cover. At the same time, though, he sat about improving it with a more powerful set of engines.

After Remus disappeared, his son, Ollie, took it over and he now lives in it at the mooring in Portelet Harbour. He lives on it with Remus’s cat, Sampson.

Outwardly, the Huffin’ Puffin doesn’t look much different to any other boat of its kind and it attracts some disparaging remarks from Marc Renouf who considers it to be ‘a bucket and tub’. However, as Remus explains in book 1, Dead in the Water, the Huffin’ Puffin is,

Better than the line of her bow might suggest. The engines develop a good twenty percent more power than her weight requires, the torque is eighty percent efficient. She has two propellers to reduce heeling, although her stern profile would have you believe she still had only the single motor installed by the boatyard.

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Huffin’ Puffin in brief

The Huffin’ Puffin is a sturdy fishing boat that Remus Carey retrofitted to increase its power and speed. It is his base of operations around the Channel Islands. After his disappearance, Ollie supervised its recovery and then started to live on it himself.

Useful to know...

The Huffin’ Puffin is berthed at Portelet Harbour, which is one of the quieter harbours for fishing from. This suits Ollie just fine since the disappearance of his father gave him a fear of the water, which means the Huffin’ Puffin never goes out beyond the end of the harbour arm.

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