Probably not pukka French but "Vous avez une catway pour moi s'il vous plait? " seems to work.
Be prepared for the HM asking for your boat's name and dimensions.
I don't have much difficulty framing the questions, it's being able to understand the answers that causes me difficulty.
... it's being able to understand the answers that causes me difficulty.
My finest achievement was at the station cafe in Caen when it fell to me to order three coffees and a lemonade for our little family. I thought that 'trois cafés et un limonade s'il vous plait' (did I say that my O level French is execrable?) would do. We got the three coffees but our young daughter was presented with a tumbler of lurid green milky fluid which she struggled to drink. On perusing the menu later it appeared that I had actually ordered 'lait menthe', which our daughter doesn't recommend.It can be even worse than that. Despite - or more strictly, because of - my execrable French I was sent one morning by Mrs H (fluent) and our French host to buy croissants. My order prepared, I managed in a busy boulangerie to both comprehend the reply and make an executive decision based thereon. Returning with pain au chocolat, I was frogmarched back to the boulangerie by our host - where she was told (to her incredulity, and my satisfaction) that they had indeed run out of croissants.
