Blue Water Sailing<\/em>\u00a0hat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The winner of last week’s Mindbender is Sean Milligan who gave a long and amusing answer to the question of how do you use the knot called the sheep shank:<\/p>\n
“When do I use it?\u00a0Never have in the almost 60 years since I learn’t how to make it as a Boy Scout. Have not met anyone who has used it in a real life situation either. Even so it was included in a basic seamanship course that I taught for a few years.\u00a0 It’s designed to shorten a rope and will hold under load, but is a bit iffy even then unless whippings are used to stop it letting go if the rope slacks slightly. It may be all right for a scout camp exercise, but I would not use it at sea.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who made the first solo sailing circumnavigation? Send your answer to\u00a0cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a\u00a0Blue Water Sailing\u00a0hat. The winner of last week’s Mindbender is Sean Milligan who gave a long and amusing answer to the question of how do you use the knot called the sheep shank: “When do I use it?\u00a0Never have in the almost 60 years since I learn’t how to make it as a Boy Scout. Have not met anyone who has used it in a real life situation either. Even so it was included in a basic seamanship course that I taught for a few years.\u00a0 It’s designed to shorten a rope and will hold under load, but is a bit iffy even then unless whippings are used to stop it letting go if the rope slacks slightly. It may be all right for a scout camp exercise, but I would not use it at sea.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28857,"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\/29362"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29369,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29362\/revisions\/29369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}