Blue Water Sailing<\/em>\u00a0hat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The winner of last week’s Mindbender is Eric\u00a0 Grant who correctly answered\u00a0 Joshua Slocum. He also commented:\u00a0 “<\/sub>We in Nova Scotia, Canada are proud of the fact that a sailor born in the community of Mount Hanley, in this province, has this distinction. In later years Joshua grew up on Briar Island in this province, and started his circumnavigation from New Bedford, Mass after a long career as a a skipper of large sailing vessels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sub>On a personal note, I was involved with a committee that struck a commemorative plaque, and mounted it on the original Mount Hanley School House, where it remains to this day.<\/sub><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On a yacht or ship’s steering wheel, what is the “king spoke”. 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 Eric\u00a0 Grant who correctly answered\u00a0 Joshua Slocum. He also commented:\u00a0 “We in Nova Scotia, Canada are proud of the fact that a sailor born in the community of Mount Hanley, in this province, has this distinction. In later years Joshua grew up on Briar Island in this province, and started his circumnavigation from New Bedford, Mass after a long career as a a skipper of large sailing vessels.\u00a0\u00a0On a personal note, I was involved with a committee that struck a commemorative plaque, and mounted it on the original Mount Hanley School House, where it remains to this day. <\/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\/29425"}],"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=29425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29430,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29425\/revisions\/29430"}],"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=29425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}