Sixty volunteers gathered recently on a dull Cornwall morning to be weighed by Maritime and Coastguard Agency officials. This weight was then marked on stickers, which were attached to each volunteer's chest. Dockside ritual humiliation? Tug-of-war preliminaries (splash go the losers)? Or perhaps a mudwrestling tournament's weigh-in? No, the procedure on 15 November was to test the implications that small Cornwall Ferries vessels are riding lower in the water these days than in the past.
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