Posted by Adam Quinan on February 23, 2010 at 16:27:35 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Close-hauled posted by Peter Ceresole on February 23, 2010 at 13:03:45:
Ted Alexander in his book "Ransome in Russia" suggests that it comes from RA-nsome (Arthur), C-arl (Sehmel) UND RA-nsome (Evgenia) but at the time Evgenia was not his wife so he may have been anticipating things a bit.