On a wood sailboat where would you find the “devils” and what does the phrase “The devil to pay” come from?
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 Ann Engle of Tacoma, WA who answered last week’s Mindbender on weather helm by emailing: “Usually weather helm is caused by an over-sheeted mainsail. But it also can be caused by a baggy mainsail or by an imbalance between the area or trim of the head sail and the mainsail, with too much sail area or trim aft.”
