Kevin Pyne, of Lake Street, Dartmouth, writes:

I have read both the excellent Dartmouth Chronicle appraisal and the Marine Accident Investigation Branch report into the loss of the fishing vessel St Christophe, and it seems there is blame on all sides. So we need learn from it and move on.

There are no winners, just important lessons to be learnt and remembered forever, as mercifully no one died.

The harbour authority needs to learn that it is not infallible and that others might know stuff worth knowing that need not be suppressed.

And ­harbour users need to see how some have ripped into the authority as a way of settling old scores, when they should have been saying, ‘there but for the grace of God go you or I’.

I have written a poem to the harbour master, which I hope he will read. Some might see it as ‘piffle’, but I see it as an old and well-established maritime way of remembering in rhyme what needs to be remembered.

So now let us pick up and move on while remembering that those who sought shelter here with us in a storm were not best served by any of us – it must never happen again.