{"id":33511,"date":"2019-08-21T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=33511"},"modified":"2019-08-21T12:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:53:35","slug":"mindbender-246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2019\/08\/mindbender-246\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Joshua Slocum carry carpet tacks\u00a0 aboard <em>Spray<\/em> during his famous solo circumnavigation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Send your answers to <a href=\"mailto:cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com\">cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com<\/a>. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of <em>Blue Water Sailing magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Hank Merkel of Red Bank, NJ, who correctly answered last week&#8217;s question about situations when sailboats underway do not have the right of way in a collision encounter with another vessel. &#8220;A sailboat under engine power with sails furled does not have the right of way when it is overtaking a vessel ahead of it or when it is converging with a vessel that is approaching on its starboard bow. In both cases, the sailboat under power is the burdened vessel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Joshua Slocum carry carpet tacks\u00a0 aboard Spray during his famous solo circumnavigation? &nbsp; Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine. &nbsp; Congratulations to Hank Merkel of Red Bank, NJ, who correctly answered last week&#8217;s question about situations when sailboats underway do not have the right of way in a collision encounter with another vessel. &#8220;A sailboat under engine power with sails furled does not have the right of way when it is overtaking a vessel ahead of it or when it is converging with a vessel that is approaching on its starboard bow. In both cases, the sailboat under power is the burdened vessel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[1928,1929],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511"}],"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=33511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33513,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33511\/revisions\/33513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}