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By George Day · On March 23, 2026

What does the old time phrase “enough room to swing a cat” come from?

 

Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.

 

Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week’s question on the intertropical convergence zones. The winner this week is Ed Richter, sv Wanderer, who emailed, “The intertropical convergence zone is a band of distrubed air that circles the globe at the equator and separates the notherest trade winds in the north fromo the southeast trad winds in the south.”

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