In the design of a sailboat, where would you find the center of lateral resistance?<\/p>\n
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Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
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Congratulations to Lionel Schmidt, Bradenton, FL, who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. “The Nautical Almanac.\u00a0 It was first published in England in 1767 and a U.S. version was first published in 1857. The Almanac contains the information celestial navigators need to determine the position on earth hourly of the sun, mood, planets and first point of\u00a0 Aires, which in turn provides a reference for the positions of 57 select navigational stars.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the design of a sailboat, where would you find the center of lateral resistance? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing.\u00a0 Congratulations to Lionel Schmidt, Bradenton, FL, who correctly answered last week’s Mindbender. “The Nautical Almanac.\u00a0 It was first published in England in 1767 and a U.S. version was first published in 1857. The Almanac contains the information celestial navigators need to determine the position on earth hourly of the sun, mood, planets and first point of\u00a0 Aires, which in turn provides a reference for the positions of 57 select navigational stars.”<\/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\/38034"}],"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=38034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38035,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38034\/revisions\/38035"}],"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=38034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}