{"id":38469,"date":"2022-03-01T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=38469"},"modified":"2022-03-01T14:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:50:44","slug":"mindbender-370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2022\/03\/mindbender-370\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is an MMSI number and how is it used?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>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.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Sam Norton, Portsmouth, NH, who correctly answered last week&#8217;s question. &#8220;When you double the angle or bearing on a boat&#8217;s bow while sailing past a landmark or buoy, you are measuring your distance off that landmark. If you take a bearing of 60 degrees on a lighthouse, sail until the bearing is 120 degrees, taking note of the distance you have sailed, you will be as far off the lighthouse as the distance between the two bearings.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an MMSI number and how is it used? &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; Congratulations to Sam Norton, Portsmouth, NH, who correctly answered last week&#8217;s question. &#8220;When you double the angle or bearing on a boat&#8217;s bow while sailing past a landmark or buoy, you are measuring your distance off that landmark. If you take a bearing of 60 degrees on a lighthouse, sail until the bearing is 120 degrees, taking note of the distance you have sailed, you will be as far off the lighthouse as the distance between the two bearings.&#8221;<\/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\/38469"}],"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=38469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38471,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469\/revisions\/38471"}],"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=38469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}