Posted by Mike Field on March 03, 2010 at 10:42:34 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: Boat Names Re: Close-hauled posted by andyb on March 03, 2010 at 07:42:09:
Andy, yes, as to the second.
But Durrell's 'dinghy' (coracle would be a better word -- it was built by his brother Leslie, who was not a boatbuilder, and named by his elder brother Larry, the other noted author of the Durrell family) was not called Bootle-Bumtrinket, although that was the name that appeared in the book and which you're no doubt thinking of.
The real name was considerably less polite, and probably not for posting on a family-oriented site like this....