Where in your sailing life will you find a cat’s paw that is not attached to a cat?
Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing.
Congratulations to Karl Schultz, Naples, FL, who correctly defined last week’s question on prop walk. “Prop walk is the tendency for a propeller on a boat to move the boat’s stern sideways as well as either forward or backwards. It is also called the paddle wheel effect since the prop rotates around a vertical axis like a paddle wheel. It is important to know which direction your stern will kick when mooring, especially stern to.”
