Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on April 16, 2008 at 10:55:18 from 81.144.214.226 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Mavis/Amazon on display in Coniston posted by Jock on April 11, 2008 at 17:27:35:
"A boat is like a locomotive. The boiler may have been swapped with
that of a sister engine or replaced with a newer design, the frames,
wheels, motion and tender may have been changed, but at heart it's
still the same engine!"
Or as Joshua Slocum (ed. A Ransome) puts it, in "Sailing alone around the world: "Now, it is a law in Lloyd's that the Jane repaired all out of the old until she is entirely new is still the Jane."