Where would you find gimbals on a cruising 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 Ernie Voltz of Metairie, LA who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. “You’d use a preventer to keep a boom from wildly and dangerously crossing the boat during an accidental jibe. Booms are deadly things and need to be tamed.”