Posted by Geraint Lewis on April 11, 2008 at 15:21:18 from 194.164.38.65 user Geraint_Lewis.
In Reply to: Re: Mavis/Amazon on display in Coniston posted by Peter H on April 11, 2008 at 11:50:11:
"if you replace every plank in the boat over the years is it still the same boat?"
Does the following add anything to the philosophical question?:
"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 she was the same dingy, beloved old Swallow they had known. ... She was a new ship, better than new, for she had renewed her youth and kept her memories and was still at heart the same old Swallow - more, far more, to them than any other vessel could be, anywhere in all the world."