Posted by Jock on August 23, 2005 at 16:54:29 from 217.172.246.144 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Revised Taxonomy posted by Laurence Monkhouse on August 23, 2005 at 16:13:52:
BUT John N says: We need to be clear that AR invented a class of boat - which we can call the Ransome class for want of a better name. The earlier Swallows and Mavis are not of the Ransome class, these were real boats, Cochy is the only real Ransome class. The other boats are of interest historically but they do not represent the Ransome class.
I'm not sure that just becuase "Cochy" is the dinghy that Ransome had built that it is any less important than the dinghies that he sailed in, owned or wrote about. I don't think the claim that Ransome invented "Cochy" can be sustained. Leaving aside the similarities with thousands of other recreational dinghies of her day, "Scarab" was based on "Amazon", so if Ransome's penchant of turning reality into fiction is carried through in this case, "Cochy" is based on ...... . Well certainly not "Mavis". Anyone with any other sugestions?
JN If you are on Windermere with the number of drownings they have per year then I would want a weatherhelm boat.
Granted, but you would probably (I might be wrong!) want a bit less weather helm than in a former working boat
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