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Congratulations to Ann Engle of Tacoma, WA who answered last week’s Mindbender on weather helm by emailing: “Usually weather helm is caused by an over-sheeted mainsail. But it also can be caused by a baggy mainsail or by an imbalance between the area or trim of the head sail and the mainsail, with too much sail area or trim aft.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On a wood sailboat where would you find the “devils” and what does the phrase “The devil to pay” come from? 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. Congratulations to Ann Engle of Tacoma, WA who answered last week’s Mindbender on weather helm by emailing: “Usually weather helm is caused by an over-sheeted mainsail. But it also can be caused by a baggy mainsail or by an imbalance between the area or trim of the head sail and the mainsail, with too much sail area or trim aft.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32719,"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\/33667"}],"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=33667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33668,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33667\/revisions\/33668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}