Nobody likes a sharp corner do they? Look at your phone, look at your laptop... the corners have been rounded, haven't they? Well let's do the same with our boat. I've elected to use a two-pence piece, but I have taken care not to deface the monarch's head with either glue or sandpaper, as it remains a hanging offence in Britain to this day. What we shall do subsequently is to take our sharp knife and run it around the edge of each coin.
The 'king's shilling' refers to conventional recruitment means by the Royal Navy and involved dropping a coin unseen into a candidate's beer so that he could considered to have accepted payment and was bound to duty. Since updated, it now features a two-pound coin in a regular cappuccino and is why I never use a Royal Naval drive-through on my way to work.
