Sunday 8 December.
Day 12.
Days remaining 222 - The number of the Beast - If it were 3 ducks...

Born in a Storm.

Well that's a new one on me... All of my boats have been built in a storm, but never have I had an Evacuation Notice for one before...! (If I have published this, by the way, it means I'm ok!)
The Police came around 4pm on Thursday afternoon, delivering the above notice - I asked them casually what time High Water was and they said they thought it would be about 8pm but didn't know as 'it varies'... A little taken aback, I asked what height of tide above Chart Datum, they were expecting... Pretty much knew what answer I would get......

Now I live at the end of a peninsular. In a very rural part of Suffolk, England.  According to google earth I  am surrounded by water for 280degrees out of, lets see.. What was it, 360? so perhaps the Environment Agency has a point in sending a policeman round to give the the above notice - or maybe, just maybe seeings as my house is 8m above the highest tide ever recorded it was just paying lip service to the powers that be - either way, it's a storm and so I must have a boat on a bench somewhere...

I'm thinking of spilling the beans on a lot of the new ideas on the boat, but to be fair I can do that in one word... Aero.  The Blackbird is all about getting aero drag down as low as possible.. and soon you'll get to see what I mean!

OK, I got a moth to build, so excuse this post for being quite short...

Glue mixed up, clamps ready to go, peel ply cut... Laters!

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