Posted by Peter Ceresole on April 05, 2007 at 09:32:41 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: David's painting posted by Mike Field on April 05, 2007 at 02:59:03:
But I can't find any reference to Swallow's hull colour (although, as with Andrew, I'm sure that somewhere we are told she was painted.)
'Drawn up on the beach beside her was another little boat, very like Swallow, but in such a glory of new paint that at first sight they could hardly believe that she was the same dingy, beloved old Swallow they had known.' (SD, JC 1948, p.419)
I can't find a reference to the colour involved, but painted she surely was.
Incidentally, when I originally read that I was less than ten years old and I had some trouble understanding the idea of a 'dingy dinghy', and I still feel a tiny echo of that confusion reading the passage sixty years later.