“ Keep your boat dry HAVING booked his gaff cutter Daisy into the SeaFair Milford Haven, a festival of vintage boats in west Wales, Sam Llewellyn received a confirmation stating its dimensions. Apparently, these are important so the organisers can fit all the boats into the berths provided. Daisy’s hull, it seems, is 5.7911999999999999 metres long, with a beam (width, to landlubbers) of 2.1844000000000001 metres. We have to agree with Sam that he needs to be careful not to get the boat wet, since the precision with which these dimensions are quoted suggests that a stray hydrogen atom could make all the difference between fitting and not fitting.
Bad news for the accident-prone - 19 November 2008 - New Scientist [sciencing, stats]
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