In olden times, leadsmen called out the water depth in fathoms. What is the depth of the cry, from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, of “full fathom five.”
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 the last mindbender question on the phrase “east is least and west is best.” The winner this week is Stephen Teatro, sv Jabiroo, an IP 35, who is presently on the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. He emailed: “This term is a pneumonic used in converting a course from true to magnetic in North America. If variation is east, subtract variation or west, add the variation. Also, wind direction from NOAA is in degrees true, so the magnetic variation should be applied and the pneumonic can be used.”
