Re: The Admirable Crichton:and centreboards


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 12, 2005 at 08:28:51 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: The Admirable Crichton: posted by John on November 12, 2005 at 00:49:03:

1) As I recall it the Admirable Crighton was the butler to a lordly company who get wrecked on a desert island. Only he had the basic expertise they needed to survive, since the lordly people had never had to do a stroke of work, so he became the dictatorial leader of the whole party. The only relevance to AR is that his characters from the lower end of the pecking order such as the D + Gs similarly take the lead when their expertise entitles them to do so.

2) Steel centreplates were (and are) galvanised. My sailing cruiser had one throughout her 50 year life, it was immersed for most of that time in salt water, and the only slight rusting was on the very bottom edge where I frequently scraped it on the bottom because I used it as a depth guage to tell me how near to the shore I could go without tacking. (Now that I have fixed keels I am in mortal terror of shallows because I can't pull them up when I hear a scraping noise!)


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