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By George Day · On July 31, 2019

On a performance sailboat, what is a “turtle” used for?

 

Send your answers to cruisingcompass@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.

 

Congratulations to Phillip Hudson, Plymouth, England, for correctly identifying “cantenary” as “the curve of anchor chain between the boat’s bow roller and the  sea floor and anchor as it sags under its own weight.”

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