Posted by Ed Kiser on November 18, 2010 at 11:17:11 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: The Pea in the Peashooter posted by Jock on November 18, 2010 at 03:38:07:
Apparently the power boat ban was not in force back in the says of SWALLOWDALE. There was an encounter with a power boat even during a thick fog that was very alarming, as the Amazon with John and Susan aboard were heading down the lake with the Amazon tents to go set up in Swallowdale, while Titty and Roger were trekking overland, following their trail of pinecones.
Here is that encounter with the powerboat:
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They drifted slowly on in the white fog. Away to the south
somewhere by Rio they heard a steamer hooting steadily. Then
the hooting stopped.
"Tied up or anchored," said Nancy. "They won't run the
steamers while it's as thick as this. Hullo, what's that chap?"
There was the noise of a motor boat coming nearer very fast.
"I wish we had a foghorn."
But before anybody could even think of shouting, the noise
roared past them in the fog and then grew fainter and fainter as
the motor boat rushed up the lake.
"That's the way," said Nancy bitterly. "In a hurry to get home.
Idiots. They never think of anybody but themselves."
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Reminds me of the Swallows in SA sailing in the dark, something their Mother made them promise not to do again.
Powerboats can be hazardous enough without adding the poor visibility of a dense fog. That "encounter" could have been very serious very quickly - but as it turned out, nothing really happened.
Ed Kiser, Kentucky