What do you call the sagging arc of chain between a boat’s bow roller and the anchor\u00a0 and chain on the sea floor?<\/p>\n
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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.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Congratulations to Dennis Del Nero of Metairie, LA who correctly identified a counterpoise on a sailboat. “You’ll find a counterpoise\u00a0 as the ground or bonding of an HF radio’s antenna. It’ll usually be a length of copper strapping attached to the seacocks and maybe to a grounding plate under the boat’s hull. The better the counterpoise, the better the transmission from the antenna.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What do you call the sagging arc of chain between a boat’s bow roller and the anchor\u00a0 and chain on the sea floor? 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 Dennis Del Nero of Metairie, LA who correctly identified a counterpoise on a sailboat. “You’ll find a counterpoise\u00a0 as the ground or bonding of an HF radio’s antenna. It’ll usually be a length of copper strapping attached to the seacocks and maybe to a grounding plate under the boat’s hull. The better the counterpoise, the better the transmission from the antenna.” <\/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\/36045"}],"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=36045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36046,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36045\/revisions\/36046"}],"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=36045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}