{"id":21191,"date":"2014-09-18T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=21191"},"modified":"2014-09-18T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:01:11","slug":"minbender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2014\/09\/minbender\/","title":{"rendered":"Minbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #000000;\" align=\"left\"><b>On an anchor windlass, what is the part called that makes contact with the rode or chain?<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Send your answer to\u00a0<a shape=\"rect\">cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com<\/a>.\u00a0A winner, who will receive a\u00a0<em>Blue Water Sailing\u00a0<\/em>hat,\u00a0will be selected at random from the correct answers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\" align=\"left\">Thanks to last week&#8217;s\u00a0Mindbender winner,\u00a0Jim Gravelle, for his answer to the question: &#8220;You are at the helm when the navigator asks what compass course you are steering. You tell her 235 degrees. With a variation of 7 degrees west and a deviation of 4 degrees east, what true course would she plot on the chart?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\" align=\"left\">\n<p>The solution is found by using the formula TVMDC (True\/Variation\/Magnetic\/Deviation\/Compass. First, enter the known quantities,\u00a07W 4E\u00a0235. Going from\u00a0right to left you add the\u00a0East and subtract the West numbers.\u00a0 Therefore, 235 + 4E = 239\u00a0&#8211; 7W = 232\u00a0True. The heading of 232T should be plotted on the chart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an anchor windlass, what is the part called that makes contact with the rode or chain? Send your answer to\u00a0cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com.\u00a0A winner, who will receive a\u00a0Blue Water Sailing\u00a0hat,\u00a0will be selected at random from the correct answers. Thanks to last week&#8217;s\u00a0Mindbender winner,\u00a0Jim Gravelle, for his answer to the question: &#8220;You are at the helm when the navigator asks what compass course you are steering. You tell her 235 degrees. With a variation of 7 degrees west and a deviation of 4 degrees east, what true course would she plot on the chart?&#8221; The solution is found by using the formula TVMDC (True\/Variation\/Magnetic\/Deviation\/Compass. First, enter the known quantities,\u00a07W 4E\u00a0235. Going from\u00a0right to left you add the\u00a0East and subtract the West numbers.\u00a0 Therefore, 235 + 4E = 239\u00a0&#8211; 7W = 232\u00a0True. The heading of 232T should be plotted on the chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21193,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21191\/revisions\/21193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}