Posted by Robert Hill on November 12, 2005 at 00:35:54 from 195.92.168.165 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Well? Re: Arthur Ransome and S&A in Wikipedia posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 11, 2005 at 10:26:12:
First, are we sure that "Amazon" had a steel centreplate, rather than a wooden centreboard?
If we're talking about the Amazon of the books, Nancy describes it as "an iron keel" on the first page of chapter XI of S&A, though the word always used in the books is centreboard.