Here’s one for readers who really know how to reader weather maps. For weather forecasting, what does a 500 millibar weather chart show you?
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 Capt. Bill Bowen s/v Lively Lady, in St. Thomas, USVI, who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender question. “A monkey’s Fists is a heavy knot at the end of a line. It is most often used to throw the line a long distance like on a messenger line when a dock crew wants total line docking lines from a ship to the dock’s bollards. A Monkey’s Fist can also be used as a stopper knot in the end of a line.”
