Where on your boat would you find a rabbit and a tree?<\/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 Ivor Watkins, Bellingham, WA who correctly answered last week’s question. He emailed: “Compasses traditionally have 32 points with each point being 11.25 degrees apart. So when you say a landmark is two points off the bow you are saying it is 22.5 degrees. To Box a compass used to mean you recite all 32 points from North clockwise around the circle — north by northeast, etc.–but today it more commonly means to convert the points of a compass to the degrees we use in navigation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where on your boat would you find a rabbit and a tree? 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 Ivor Watkins, Bellingham, WA who correctly answered last week’s question. He emailed: “Compasses traditionally have 32 points with each point being 11.25 degrees apart. So when you say a landmark is two points off the bow you are saying it is 22.5 degrees. To Box a compass used to mean you recite all 32 points from North clockwise around the circle — north by northeast, etc.–but today it more commonly means to convert the points of a compass to the degrees we use in navigation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31479,"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\/37265"}],"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=37265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37266,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37265\/revisions\/37266"}],"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=37265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}