It turned out some idiot had forgotten to build a ladder onto the Laytheboat. Ooops. It's also very hard to bring boat and jet together because the boat, having only skids, can't brake on land; it can only stop somewhere dead flat or by turning at a right angle to a slope, and it steers like a cow. After a bit of thought I hit on this:

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Kerbals can climb things really quite well; Sally has just walked to the end of that air intake and climbed up onto the deck. The jet doesn't have to stay with wheels in the drink; when the Hangarmoth is overhead I can get a control connection and get it back on the beach.

Bit of a comedy of errors to get here but the Laytheboat is ready to go sailing.