Browsing Category Mindbender

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  What is a “Monkey’s Fist” and when do you use one?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat. ...

  On April 24, 2018 / By George Day
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  Where will you find the International Date Line?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.   Congratulation to ...

  On April 18, 2018 / By George Day
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  Where in the world is the Sargasso Sea?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.   The winner ...

  On April 12, 2018 / By George Day
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  If it is 1200 GMT and you are positioned 60 degrees west of the Prime Meridian, what’s your local time?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected ...

  On April 5, 2018 / By George Day
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  In Morse Code what does   . . .  _ _ _  . . .  stand for?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, ...

  On March 28, 2018 / By George Day
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  In taking bearings while coastal piloting, what are you calculating when you “double the angle on the bow?”   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from ...

  On March 21, 2018 / By George Day
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  What’s a barber hauler?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.   Congratulations to Fred Edmiston who correctly ...

  On March 14, 2018 / By George Day
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  In the olden days, what were the thole pins on a row boat?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue ...

  On March 7, 2018 / By George Day
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  What are you doing when you are “kedging off?”   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat   The ...

  On March 1, 2018 / By George Day
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  What do you call the piece of teak decking that runs down the boat’s center line and into which the deck planks are notched?   Send your answer ...

  On February 22, 2018 / By George Day