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    Where in the world is the Sargasso Sea?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.   The winner ...

    On April 12, 2018 / By
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    If it is 1200 GMT and you are positioned 60 degrees west of the Prime Meridian, what’s your local time?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected ...

    On April 5, 2018 / By
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    In Morse Code what does   . . .  _ _ _  . . .  stand for?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, ...

    On March 28, 2018 / By
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    In taking bearings while coastal piloting, what are you calculating when you “double the angle on the bow?”   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from ...

    On March 21, 2018 / By
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    What’s a barber hauler?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.   Congratulations to Fred Edmiston who correctly ...

    On March 14, 2018 / By
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    In the olden days, what were the thole pins on a row boat?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue ...

    On March 7, 2018 / By
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    What are you doing when you are “kedging off?”   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat   The ...

    On March 1, 2018 / By
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    What do you call the piece of teak decking that runs down the boat’s center line and into which the deck planks are notched?   Send your answer ...

    On February 22, 2018 / By
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    On a trimaran, invented by Malaysians and Polynesians, what is the Vaka, the akas and the amas?   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct ...

    On February 14, 2018 / By
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    Where on your boat would you find a “lubber’s line?”   Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.   ...

    On February 8, 2018 / By