Who wrote the classic tome on seamanship and navigation called The American Practical Navigator?
Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine.
Dean Ross of Charleston, SC answered last week’s Mindbender correctly by emailing: “When you change course from close hauled to broad reaching, you move the genoa sheet cars forward to tighten the leech and take the twist out of the top of the sail.”
