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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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    When using dividers to measure distance on a nautical chart with no distance scale, do you use degrees of latitude or degrees of longitude as your scale?   ...

    On June 6, 2018 / By
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    What are you doing when you tack a sailboat with a jib or genoa without releasing the jib sheet so the sail backs on the windward side?   ...

    On May 30, 2018 / By