What is the name of the ship that Charles Darwin sailed on in the 1830’s and made famous?
Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.
Thanks to last week’s winner, Scott Nielsen, for the correct answer to the question: Is the correct term for a long thin triangular flag flown from a masthead a pennant or pendant?
The anwer is more complicated than I initially realized. Thanks to Linda Knowles for bringing this to my attention. Pennant is the more commonly used term for a thin flag flown from a masthead today. Though pendant seems to have been used interchangeably with pennant in the past, the modern definition I found is: A length of wire or rope secured at one end to a mast or spar and having a block or other fitting at the lower end.
