Most sailors know the maxim: The most dangerous thing on a sailboat is a calendar. If they don’t know that one, they definitely have heard about or experienced the pain of trying to keep a schedule. Usually this applies to cruising in remote places and telling someone that you will be there on a specific date. We are typically at the whim of Mother Nature and adjust our plans to the weather.
I didn’t think this had any relevance outside of actually sailing. But, it turns out that the calendar maxim can burn you in the boat yard, as well as at sea. Here’s a short video from March where I make a prediction on getting out of the yard. Well as some say in NOLA, “I put the gris gris on it.”
The yard has informed me that we have another 3 weeks, which means at least 5. But I am not making any predictions now, lest the universe teach me another lesson on having a plan.