When sitting in your boat’s cockpit with you eyes at sic feet above the water, how par away is the horizon?
Send your answers to george@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.
Thanks to all readers who sent in answers to last week’s Mindbender. The winner this week is Hans Fromm, St. Paul, MN who emailed: “In boat terms, initial stability is the combination of the hull’s form stability, or shape, and weight distribution, or location of the ballast. In short, the beamier the hull and the deeper the ballast, the more initial stability a design will have.
