Re: Folding Boat


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Posted by Tom Napier on June 24, 2011 at 13:06:37 user Didymus.

In Reply to: Re: Folding Boat posted by Eric Abraham on June 24, 2011 at 06:29:56:

As Captain Flint says,"Mac ought to be ashamed of her, there are perfectly good folding boats to be bought but he must go and make his own." (Chap 14)
I've always read this as meaning that Mac had built the folder to his own, possibly crackpot, design and that this is why it rows so badly. He could have built it from plans or copied a commercial design but the implication is that he hadn't. This doesn't address the question of where Ransome got his inspiration for the drawings but it would account for no one finding a boat exactly like it, it was deservedly unique.



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