Tomi is determined. Tomi gets his friends and his grandfather “Ojii-Chan” to make a plan to raise the voat. They try all kinds of ideas and work to lighten the boat so that it can be raised. They borrowed some marine pontoon boats to lift the hull, and they were successful because in the book it says “Slowly, the hull began to rise.”
Tomi is determined to bring his father’s boat back because he remembers what life was like before the war. Even through Keet told Tomi not to raise the boat, Tomi is determined to raise it. It is