Posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on October 24, 2000 at 05:32:39 from 203.27.30.240:
In Reply to: query re rescue of the Hullabaloos at the end of Coot Club posted by Karelia on October 24, 2000 at 01:48:08:
I have always assumed that this was a combination of:
(a)the relatively low proportion of people who learned to swim in the earlier decades of this century; and
(b)the youthful tendancy to hyperbole of the crews of theTitmouse and the Teasel.