How would you use a monkey’s fist on your boat?
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 Ellen DiFranco of Tacoma, WA who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. She emailed: “In a seaway with waves rolling, the wave length is the distance between one trough or peak and the next trough or peak. The time this cycle takes is called the wave period.”