Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on December 28, 2003 at 11:23:43 from 195.93.32.7 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: boats at low tide... Damaged? posted by Prue Eckett on December 28, 2003 at 08:00:37:
It does not do a boat any good to dry out every tide, but it does not do her very much harm; as Pru's father said, the boat will not be damaged by its own weight. Boats are quite strong structures. But the weight of someone climbing into the boat will do damage. Dick should not really have climbed into the Beckfoot "war canoe" (which I fancy is quite a hefty rowing boat) to put the pigeon basket in the sternsheets, and, having read his EF Knight, he knows this, but he has to get the pigeon basket into the boat, and he and Dot are too small to shover her back afloat before he climbs in, which is what he knows he should have done. Probably the weight of a small boy will do less harm than the weight of a grown man.
Our war canoe, Piglet, dries out on every tide.