[PeterAllen]

Thanks Liam, I've got your number so I'll take up on that offer if needs be. I suggested he bring his gear as carry-on luggage but he said Customs may query why he had it if he was on holidays and might confiscate it for the duration of his stay.

I think the issue of distortion arose because some of the pieces didn't have edge folds or strengthening ribs, I was going to add them later - my inexperience showing. This time I'll lay in the fibreglass rope to the outer edges of the pieces before I join their mating edges.

With all the stress associated with this my wife told me at 11:00am that it's Valentine's Day and asked what I had planned. Women, they have no sense of priorities do they.

24 days and counting.