It sometimes pays not to think about things too deeply. We have made plans of the upper hull panels (port and starboard), and lower panel sides (port only) and have worked out that we have 30 panels to coat with epoxy. That is 2 coats of epoxy for each panel, which makes a total of 60 coats to complete the task. If we manage to do 2 coats a day, we will finish the task in about a month! I know we can get on and do other things, but it really is quite depressing as coating ply panels with epoxy must be one of the most tedious ways of passing the time.

Then there are times when you have to think so deeply that your brain starts to hurt. We nearly came to divorce proceedings as we both tried to decide which sides of the various panels needed to be coated. Women have no sense of spatial awareness, or at least the woman I married doesn’t. The fact that she was right just proves my point. I am also a man who asks for directions and always reads the instructions that come with any new electrical or flat-pack furniture item.

Why do our American cousins say “do the math” when it should be “doing the maths”, as it is a shortening of mathematics? Still they don’t speak proper like wot I do. I have never forgiven Dick Van Dyke for murdering the cockney accent in Mary Poppins! Talking of Dick Van Dyke, did you know that the child actor in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was called Adrian Hall? That was not me by the way, as I think I would have remembered if it was. It was ‘an’ Adrian Hall’ not ‘THE’ Adrian Hall. I thank you.