What is the disease “ciguatera” and how could cruisers be exposed to it?
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. Lanny Stark, Naples, FL, who correctly answered last week’s question on “prop walk”. “Prop walk is the sideways effect of a boat’s propeller, particularly in reverse. This will kick the boat’s transom in the direction the prop is spinning and can make it tricky backing into a slip.”
