Fair enough - the boat wasn't "thrown" out the window. That's why it still looks so good!

However, while we're being picky, it's known more as a Czech, rather than a Florentine, custom. The defenestration of Prague in 1618 is what started The Thirty Years' War. (See link below, as well as http://www3.telus.net/defenestrate/meaning.html )

Happy paddling! :-)

: As my daughter-in-law so carefully pointed, it was not defenestration! That
: was done to city counselors in Florence when the populace did not like
: them; the counselors went splat.