Where in your sailing life will you find a cat’s paw that is not attached to a cat?<\/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.<\/b><\/p>\n
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Congratulations to Karl Schultz, Naples, FL, who correctly defined last week’s question on prop walk. “Prop walk is the tendency for a propeller on a boat to move the boat’s stern sideways as well as either forward or backwards. It is also called the paddle wheel effect since the prop rotates around a vertical axis like a paddle wheel. It is important to know which direction your stern will kick when mooring, especially stern to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Where in your sailing life will you find a cat’s paw that is not attached to a cat? 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. Congratulations to Karl Schultz, Naples, FL, who correctly defined last week’s question on prop walk. “Prop walk is the tendency for a propeller on a boat to move the boat’s stern sideways as well as either forward or backwards. It is also called the paddle wheel effect since the prop rotates around a vertical axis like a paddle wheel. It is important to know which direction your stern will kick when mooring, especially stern to.”<\/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\/38598"}],"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=38598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38600,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598\/revisions\/38600"}],"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=38598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}