What with it blowing a hooley with the fiercest winds on record and my boat lying in an exposed pontoon berth 200 yards from my Essex home, I set off post haste, chaise longue and with alacrity in the opposite direction; thus demonstrating a law of physics as immutable as gravity, but quite similar to inertia. It’s known as a displacement activity.
Engineers will tell you that displacement can be calculated by first multiplying or dividing mass (M) and volume (V) and, in the case of a Westerly Centaur, squaring it