In the interests of exacerbating the topic drift on the thread, one of my old colleagues from Southampton University's Ship Science department (who is from Barbados) does a lot of Lloyd's Register's surveying in the Eastern Caribbean.

One of the hangovers from the age of steam is that he gets to inspect the pressure vessels of many of the rum distilleries in the English speaking islands. He therefore is a man who seldom has to pay for his own rum...

Giles. Mogless in Paris.