Who was the first person to sail a yacht, singlehanded and non-stop around the world?
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 Sally Cornwell of Plymouth, England who answered last week’s Mindbender on devils in wood boats this way: “The phrase “Devil to Pay” goes back into the 17th Century at least and may have first referred to a Faustian bargain with Satan. On a wooden ship, the devils are the seems between the keelson and the first plank on either side. These are very hard to calk or “pay” so aboard ship saying you have the “devil to pay” means you have a hard job of it ahead of you.”
