I'll nearly be setting sail - will actually be in a dinghy tomorrow (Thurs) and at sea in a motor boat on Sat. On Friday I'll be safely sitting in a classroom on Whale Island.

Apparently (I learn from a recently acquired book) some time early in the last century (doesn't it seem strange to talk of the 20th like that?) the Royal Navy wanted to disprove the myth that it was unlucky to go to sea on a Friday.   So they ordered a new ship on a Friday, its keel was laid on a Friday and it was launched on a Friday. They even found a Captain by the name of Friday to command it and of course it set sail on its maiden voyage on a Friday.





It was never heard of again.



Or so it says.

Steve