inshore• A couple of fishermen had sighted the boat close inshore.• On the second night out of Hong Kong we blundered into the middle of a fishingfleet working close inshore.• The boat was there, tied up and rocking gently to the swirl of the dark water inshore.• This could now be having an effect on the numbers of immature fish inshore.• Soon, the tide would turn and it would begin to creepinshore again.• The idea was to use her for short patrolsinshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the southCoast.• Meanwhile, the watchers by the beaconsabove Portwrinkle and at Rame were waiting for the fleet to head inshore to Plymouth.• We made it in a smother of white water close inshore towards Buckie.• These were marshalled into their landingsequence before the run inshore while a bombardment by naval and air forces covered the approach.