What does the old sailor’s adage “Come the wind before the rain, you’ll soon be setting sail again” refer to?<\/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 e Capt. Danny Reevie, Metairie, LA who correctly answered last week’s question on channel markers. “Most of the world uses the IALA-A buoy system where in-bound vessels will have red buoys and lights on the port side and green buoys and lights on the starboard side. In the IALA-B system used in the North and South America, Japan and the Philippines, in-bound vessels will have green buoys and lights on the port side and red on the starboard side; that’s why in these countries we say “red right returning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What does the old sailor’s adage “Come the wind before the rain, you’ll soon be setting sail again” refer to? 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 e Capt. Danny Reevie, Metairie, LA who correctly answered last week’s question on channel markers. “Most of the world uses the IALA-A buoy system where in-bound vessels will have red buoys and lights on the port side and green buoys and lights on the starboard side. In the IALA-B system used in the North and South America, Japan and the Philippines, in-bound vessels will have green buoys and lights on the port side and red on the starboard side; that’s why in these countries we say “red right returning.”<\/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\/38243"}],"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=38243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38244,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions\/38244"}],"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=38243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}