Posted by RichardG on August 01, 2003 at 10:13:11 from 213.120.126.11 user RichardG.
In Reply to: Re: another plot-defining nautical mishap posted by Alex Forbes on July 31, 2003 at 19:16:03:
I never thought it at all surprising that Swallow remained on the bottom even after the pigs of ballast were removed - because in the days when I was reading the books for the first time I located two sunken dinghies in a small lake in Wales and had great fun trying to salvage them - one was an early fibreglass rowing boat with a large hole amidships, the other a wooden boat about the size of Swallow. Both were on the bottom and while we managed to raise the fibreglass boat, the wooden one was extremely heavy (being totally waterlogged) and we never did get her out to see what had caused her to sink.