As soon as the boat arrived at the pier, Laurelate jumped on land and used some rope to secure the boat. Then she got back in to get her bow.
"There's an upside-down Canoe here," she said, pointing, "maybe while Hewitt works his ritual, one of us can stand guard and the rest can try dragging it onto the shore. It might contain clues as to what happened and if nothing else, it can be salvaged in case those underwater goblins wreck our other boat. I'm not sure if they will come on land, but if we put if far enough, it should be fairly safe. I have some rope we can use if needed."

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I assume there's some rope in the boat to secure it to the dock. Most of those small boats have some rope in them (I've been on enough RHIBs to know).