Where on your boat would you find a rabbit and a tree?
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 Ivor Watkins, Bellingham, WA who correctly answered last week’s question. He emailed: “Compasses traditionally have 32 points with each point being 11.25 degrees apart. So when you say a landmark is two points off the bow you are saying it is 22.5 degrees. To Box a compass used to mean you recite all 32 points from North clockwise around the circle — north by northeast, etc.–but today it more commonly means to convert the points of a compass to the degrees we use in navigation.”