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Congratulations to Jill Whalen of Hyannis, MA who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. She emailed, “Old-time sailors put tallow in the base of their lead line weights so they could collect a sample of the sea floor and that would help them navigate when visibility was low.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does it mean to “pay the devil” on an old wood boat? 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 Jill Whalen of Hyannis, MA who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. She emailed, “Old-time sailors put tallow in the base of their lead line weights so they could collect a sample of the sea floor and that would help them navigate when visibility was low.”<\/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\/35141"}],"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=35141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35141\/revisions\/35142"}],"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=35141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}