Posted by Elizabeth on October 17, 2007 at 03:51:10 from 24.22.115.46 user Elizabeth.
In Reply to: Re: Re Blue water) posted by Peter H on October 16, 2007 at 22:21:53:
Maybe I am missing something--not a sailor really & don't know the proper terms--but isn't AR's reference to "blue water" a term designed to tell the reader that PD had hoped to go properly out to sea, not just dink around in the Channel? I always assumed it meant in ocean waters. Water changes color depending on weather, depth, cleanliness, color of sand underneath....probably a number of other reasons, too. So I don't think he was referring to the actual color at all. Thus the Bay of Biscay, no matter what how brilliant a blue, is still a bay, not "blue water"--the ocean!