Rather glad that Herge had the good judgment this time to not name the adventure "Tintin and the Broken Mast" - which would have been a lousy spoiler (cf. Tintin and the Broken Ear).
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve read this and it’s companion book! From when I was a little kid adoring every frame whilst reading this book inside an old Mobile-Book Library outside my school outside school hours near a railway station during a long hot summer, through all the TV, DVD, movie and online versions, plus all it’s references in other Herge related books and documentaries, and more recently via smartphone Apps and some toys
