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By George Day · On August 7, 2019

What are you calculating when you take the square root a sailboat’s waterline length and multiply it by 1.34?

 

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.

 

Congratulations to Danny Willett of Sydney, Australia, who correctly identified a “turtle” on a sail boat as ” a sail bag with a large opening top that is used on the fore deck for stowing and quickly hoisting downwind sails such as a spinnaker, reacher or code zero.”

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