In the northern hemisphere, when the wind is “backing” is it shifting in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction?
Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.
Thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week’s question on lead lines. The winner this week is David Bartnowski who emailed: “The hollow in the bottom of the lead weight is to hold tallow so when the weight is pulled up, debris from the bottom will stick to the tallow and you can determine what thee bottom is like, sand, gravel, mud, etc.”
