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Congratulations to Capt. Bill Bowen s\/v Lively Lady, in St. Thomas, USVI, who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender question. “A monkey’s Fists is a heavy knot at the end of a line. It is most often used to throw the line a long distance like on a messenger line when a dock crew wants total line docking lines from a ship to the dock’s bollards. A Monkey’s Fist can also be used as a stopper knot in the end of a line.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s one for readers who really know how to reader weather maps. For weather forecasting, what does a 500 millibar weather chart show you? 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 Capt. Bill Bowen s\/v Lively Lady, in St. Thomas, USVI, who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender question. “A monkey’s Fists is a heavy knot at the end of a line. It is most often used to throw the line a long distance like on a messenger line when a dock crew wants total line docking lines from a ship to the dock’s bollards. A Monkey’s Fist can also be used as a stopper knot in the end of a line.”<\/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\/35058"}],"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=35058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35061,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35058\/revisions\/35061"}],"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=35058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}