{"id":23375,"date":"2015-07-16T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23375"},"modified":"2015-07-16T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T11:58:37","slug":"mindbender-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/07\/mindbender-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How many nautical miles in 1 degree of latitude?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>And how many nautical miles in 1 degree of longitude at the 60th parallel?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Send your answer to\u00a0cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive\u00a0a\u00a0<em>Blue Water Sailing\u00a0<\/em>hat.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Thanks to last weeks winner,Karen Trautz, for her answer to the question:What does the saying &#8220;True Virgins Make Dull Companions&#8221; have to to do with the sailing community?It&#8217;s a mnemonic used to remember the order in which to calculate\u00a0the course to steer\u00a0starting from True heading and adjusting for Variation to get the Magnetic heading, then adjusting for Deviation to reach a Compass heading.\u00a0 TVMDC.\u00a0 Add Whiskey was the rest of the mnemonic I remember to Add Westerly variation, versus subtract easterly variation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many nautical miles in 1 degree of latitude?\u00a0And how many nautical miles in 1 degree of longitude at the 60th parallel?\u00a0 Send your answer to\u00a0cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive\u00a0a\u00a0Blue Water Sailing\u00a0hat. Thanks to last weeks winner,Karen Trautz, for her answer to the question:What does the saying &#8220;True Virgins Make Dull Companions&#8221; have to to do with the sailing community?It&#8217;s a mnemonic used to remember the order in which to calculate\u00a0the course to steer\u00a0starting from True heading and adjusting for Variation to get the Magnetic heading, then adjusting for Deviation to reach a Compass heading.\u00a0 TVMDC.\u00a0 Add Whiskey was the rest of the mnemonic I remember to Add Westerly variation, versus subtract easterly variation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23226,"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\/23375"}],"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=23375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23376,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions\/23376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}