What does it mean to “pay the devil” on an old wood boat?
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 Jill Whalen of Hyannis, MA who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. She emailed, “Old-time sailors put tallow in the base of their lead line weights so they could collect a sample of the sea floor and that would help them navigate when visibility was low.”