Posted by Dan Lind on July 16, 2002 at -1:14:01 from 24.76.194.237 user captain.
In Reply to: My thoughts on maps posted by Jim McDowell on July 11, 2002 at 17:17:46:
Welcome to TARBOARD, Jim: I believe TARBOARD activists are a sleepy lot this summer: Normally one can expect a barrage of intelligent, well thought out, careful, analytical comment in response to any posting!
If my first book had been Secret Water I think my enthusiasm for things Ransome would have faded quickly. SW is at the bottom of my list - all that dull going around in endless channels of mud.... Several years ago in one of the TARS publications someone suggested AR inroduced the Amazons to SW so as to bring some life in to it. He failed.
Perhaps you haven't yet visited the Broads: A trip there would surely make CC and BS come to life for you. It did for me. After a sail on a wherry, another on the Grizzled Skipper, and a few pints at the Swan, I was hooked.
I've yet to successfully download a map, but will keep trying. You do, of course, know that the scale is 1/4 inch equals 100 yards, as defined by AR himself in SD and shown clearly in PM?
You are a long way from any serious ocean. I'm along the border country between British Columbia and Washington, and am in the process of buying a big Margoletta after 28 years of sailing. Shame!
Regards. Dan