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The winner of last week\u2019s Mindbender is Ron Sherwin of Napa, CA who correctly identifies a \u201cking spoke\u201d as the vertical spoke on a ship’s wheel when the rudder is centered In the old days, someone would mark the king spoke with a turk’s head, but, nowadays, virtually no one knows how to tie a turk’s head.\u00a0Most of us mark the king spoke on stainless wheels with black tape. It works, but something seems lost.<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the process that watermakers or desalinators use to turn salt water into fresh water? 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\u2019s Mindbender is Ron Sherwin of Napa, CA who correctly identifies a \u201cking spoke\u201d as the vertical spoke on a ship’s wheel when the rudder is centered In the old days, someone would mark the king spoke with a turk’s head, but, nowadays, virtually no one knows how to tie a turk’s head.\u00a0Most of us mark the king spoke on stainless wheels with black tape. It works, but something seems lost.<\/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\/29466"}],"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=29466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29467,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29466\/revisions\/29467"}],"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=29466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}