{"id":22947,"date":"2015-05-21T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2015-05-21T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:30:47","slug":"mindbender-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/05\/mindbender-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you are flying this courtesy flag, what country are you in? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/b8db14b6001\/4b45d100-c51e-42d5-a41d-5637bfe37455.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"166\" name=\"ACCOUNT.IMAGE.3330\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Send your answer to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mail%20to:%20cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com<\/a>. \u00a0The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive\u00a0a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Blue Water Sailing<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>hat.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Thanks to the Weems and Plath Mindbender winner, Gordon Couture, for his answer to the question:\u00a0You are\u00a0the navigator and before coming on deck for your watch, want to plot an updated\u00a0fix and true\u00a0course on the chart. After plotting your fix, you ask the on watch crew what compass course they are steering and they reply\u00a0215 degrees. With a variation\u00a0of 17 degrees east and a deviation of 3 degrees west, what true course do you plot?<\/div>\n<div>Gordon&#8217;s Answer: \u00a0True\u00a0+\/- Var = Magnetic +\/- Dev = Compass\u00a0 (add west, subtract east)\u00a0OR\u00a0 Compass +\/- Dev = Magnetic +\/- Var = True (subtract west, add east)<\/div>\n<div>Therefore, in your example, a compass reading of 215, with variation 17 east and deviation 3 west results in a true course of 229 TRUE (215-3+17).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are flying this courtesy flag, what country are you in? \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Send your answer to\u00a0cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. \u00a0The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive\u00a0a\u00a0Blue Water Sailing\u00a0hat. Thanks to the Weems and Plath Mindbender winner, Gordon Couture, for his answer to the question:\u00a0You are\u00a0the navigator and before coming on deck for your watch, want to plot an updated\u00a0fix and true\u00a0course on the chart. After plotting your fix, you ask the on watch crew what compass course they are steering and they reply\u00a0215 degrees. With a variation\u00a0of 17 degrees east and a deviation of 3 degrees west, what true course do you plot? Gordon&#8217;s Answer: \u00a0True\u00a0+\/- Var = Magnetic +\/- Dev = Compass\u00a0 (add west, subtract east)\u00a0OR\u00a0 Compass +\/- Dev = Magnetic +\/- Var = True (subtract west, add east) Therefore, in your example, a compass reading of 215, with variation 17 east and deviation 3 west results in a true course of 229 TRUE (215-3+17).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947"}],"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=22947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22958,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions\/22958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}