Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on June 09, 2007 at 08:24:32 from 82.27.17.203 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: The Folding Boat Question. posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on June 09, 2007 at 23:07:02:
"my father's Prout in 1957. He said it appeared so unsafe that it imposed good seamanship"
I had a 6 foot Prout as a teenager round about then. It not only appeared unsafe - it WAS unsafe, especially overloaded as it usually was.
And no buoyancy, lifejackets, or any of that nonsense. But we are all still here. Perhaps your father was right.