Logs and Shanties

Minister:
Tris will you take Rach to be your skipper?
Will you wake her, radio her, take a line and tow her?
and, forsaking all building projects, be faithful to her as long as you both shall sail?

Tris:
I will.

Minister:
Rachel will you take Tris to be your commie?
Will you help him, caffienate him, make crumpets and feed him?
and, forsaking all bunting projects, be faithful to him as long as you both shall sail?

Rach:
I will.

Tris:
I, Tristan Booth, do take you Rachel Mote to be my lawful wedded skipper.
To heave and to hove,
in aft and in forwd,
for windier, for calmer,
in sunshine and in rain,
to luff and to close reach,
til faulty radios part us
according to cruise law.
In the presence of Mallards I make this vow.

Rach:
I, Rachel Mote, do take you Tristan Booth, to be my lawful wedded commie.
I give you this string as a sign of our Mallards
with my undamaged boat I honour you,
all that I hove I give to you,
and all of my spare biscuits I share with you.
Within the love of the cruises, Harriers, Kestrels and Mallards.

Minister:
In the presence of you all, and before this logs and shanties,
Tris and Rach have given their consent
and made their Mallards vows to each other.

They have declared their Mallards by the joining of quants and by the giving and receiving of string.

I therefore proclaim them commie and skipper.
You may miss the tide.