What are you doing when you “box” a compass?
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 Devin Crowley, Padstow, Cornwall, UK who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. “The phrase ‘Not enough room to swing a cat’ comes from the old days of wooden ships and iron men when misbehaving sailors were punished by being whipped with a cat-o-nine-tails. Below decks there wasn’t enough room to swing the whip or cat so punishment had to take place on deck. ”
