After the boat was on the water again, Stowe was able to go inside for the first time since stepping off it on the day of the incident, which happened in the early hours.
“At one point the boat was almost at 45 degrees as it was pulled out, so anything that was on the one side of the boat is now on the other side of the boat or on the floor,” he explained.
“There’s a lot of mess and clean-up to be done, broken crockery and plates and food and things like that. We were preparing for Christmas – as you can imagine, all those Christmas things are all over the place.”
The next step, he said, was to get the boat out of the water again.
“It’ll go out into a dry dock area where it’ll be fully inspected… and repaired and replaced as required, before we can even think about cruising down the cut again,” he explained.
“I have to be hopeful.”