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  Who or what is a Hector Pascal?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription ...

  On September 13, 2018 / By George Day
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  Who and what is a Hector Pascal?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year ...

  On September 12, 2018 / By George Day
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  What unit of electricity is used to rate a solar panel’s output?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers ...

  On September 5, 2018 / By George Day
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  When running dead downwind, which will be stronger, the true wind or the apparent wind?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from ...

  On August 29, 2018 / By George Day
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  When running dead downwind, which will be stronger, the true wind or the apparent wind?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from ...

  On August 29, 2018 / By George Day
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  On the American Yacht Ensign, what replaces the 50 stars in the top left corner of the standard American flag on which it is based?   Send your ...

  On August 22, 2018 / By George Day
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  What is the law in navigation that states “in the Northern Hemisphere, when you stand with your back to the wind, a low pressure area will be on ...

  On August 16, 2018 / By George Day
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  What is the law in navigation that states “in the Northern Hemisphere, when you stand with your back to the wind, a low pressure area will be on ...

  On August 15, 2018 / By George Day
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  On a Mercator Projection chart, does a great circle course across an ocean curve away from the pole or toward the pole?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. ...

  On August 8, 2018 / By George Day
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  It’s hurricane season, what wind speed is required to designate a storm as a hurricane?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will ...

  On June 14, 2018 / By George Day