Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 23, 2005 at 07:31:31 from 82.7.160.4 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Swallow anew? posted by J2 on August 22, 2005 at 20:27:48:
First I get accused of implicating something really complicated by L.M
I made no accusations. You said:
a) 1 think the key difference was that the Morecambe Bay boats were working boats. They were owned by fishermen and cheaper to build and easier to keep watertight than boats with a centreboard case
b) The Coniston and Windmere boats were the playthings of relatively rich people. The additional building and maintenance costs of a centreboard case would have been unimportant.
I had understood this to imply that Swallow 2, which we know was bought at Morecambe Bay and had no centreboard, fell into category a), and Swallow 1, which belonged to the Collingwoods who were well off, probably was in category b). This seems entirely logical to me.
I find this discussion interesting, I'm not looking to annoy anybody and apologise if I have done so