Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.
What does the marine term “Bristol fashion” mean and where did it originate?
Many thanks to everyone who replied to last week’s question on the size of Greenland as depicted in a Mercator Projection. The winner this week is Auguste Fortin, SV Pax, who emailed:
Greenland looks so large because of the Mercator map projection, which is excellent for preserving maritime distances but distorts land masses, the more so as one departs from the equator. Perhaps Greenland wouldn’t be so appealing to certain nations if its true size was shown on maps, such as the equal earth projection.
Auguste Fortin
s/v PAX
