WORLD METROLOGY DAY

Today is world metrology day, celebrating the standardization of measure. How important is that? I will add here that when lofting "Courageous" S&S chose to give us the offsets in centimeters. They felt it would produce a more accurate set of lines. Remember this is 1973, It was not obvious where we would get tape measures in centimeters; we had to special order them. To further complicate things I seem to recall that  the keel design was delivered to us in tenths of an inch. We had to order yet another set of tapes.