Another science day, the weather being for the second (and last) day unfavorable for boat waxing... then in the evening we made chili and all watched a Poirot episode which turned out to be one we've been trying to find for years, as it contains one of the most amusing snatches of dialogue:

Innkeeper: Perhaps he was frightened away by the ghosts. Now then, breakfast -- how about a nice kipper, they're fresh today."

Poirot: "My tisane. Two slices of bread, toasted on one side, only, please."

Hastings: "Ghosts, did you say?"

Innkeeper: "Yes. Haunted house. Marsdon Manor. Where he went last night. They say it's full of them."

Poirot: "You have seen them yourself?"

Innkeeper: "Well, no, not personally, I haven't, of course."

Poirot: "How do you know they are fresh?"

Innkeeper: "Sorry?"

Poirot: "The kippers."

Innkeeper: "Oh, ah, they're fresh alright. We get them delivered twice a week from Grimsby."

Poirot: "So it is the place of the untold evil, crawling with the spirits of the living dead?"

Innkeeper: "Grimsby?!"

[from The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor, David Suchet as Poirot]
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Tomorrow we restart and with luck complete the waxing the underside of the topsides, and deck prep (for waxing up there as well). We also hope to get bottom paint either tomorrow or the next day. Meanwhile, Grant is completing another round of testing with his Calvert courses.

Yesterday it positively poured. Today the floodwaters are receding a bit.