What is the COSPAS-SARSAT system?
Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.
Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week’s question on katabatic winds. The winner this week is Nick Bigney, Dallas, Texas who emailed: “Earnest Shackleton may have encountered some furious katabatic winds which will rip down a valley or canyon into a harbor. They will knock a boat flat if the boat is responding to current and may be hit crosswise as they lay in a harbor. Boats may encounter Williwaws as they anchor in far southern harbors preparatory to traversing Cape Horn.”
