Sailing
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Sailing is either an important part or in the background to all of the Swallows and Amazons series of books. The characters either sail during each book, or hope to be able sail in the near future, as in Swallowdale or Pigeon Post.
[edit] The joy of sailing
Instances where the sheer enjoyment of sailing is described:
- The klop, klop of water under the bows of a small boat will cure most troubles in this world... (BS11)
[edit] Technical descriptions
Instances where the technical detail of sailing is described:
[edit] Ransome and sailing
Ransome learned to sail as a young man on Coniston Water when he befriended the Collingwood family and was able to use their small sailing dinghy Jamrach. Later while living with his wife-to be in Latvia he bought several boats to sail on the Baltic, eventually ending up by arranging for his own boat, Racundra to be built. After returning to live in the Lake District, he bough one of the Altounyan family's boats, Swallow to sail after he had taught the children to sail.
Ransome also hired sailing boats to cruise the Norfolk Broads. When the Ransomes moved to East Anglia, he bough a cruising yacht, the Nancy Blackett which became his favourite boat and the original for his fictional Goblin.
