Although a startling image, a turk’s head, as a knot, has a purpose on a boat or ship other than as a key chain or an actual head. What it is?<\/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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Thanks to all readers who responded to last week’s question on the first person to circumnavigate, no-stop west-about against the prevailing winds. Colin Herapath, Dungeness, England, was the first to answer correctly. “It would be no other than Sir Chay Blyth who rowed across the Atlantic in a dory with John Ridgeway, then entered and failed to finish the first Golden Globe Race and then convinced British Steel to fund his attempt to sail from England non-stop around the world west-about against the Roaring Forties and return to England. He did it. They made only one of Sir Chay.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although a startling image, a turk’s head, as a knot, has a purpose on a boat or ship other than as a key chain or an actual head. What it is? 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. Thanks to all readers who responded to last week’s question on the first person to circumnavigate, no-stop west-about against the prevailing winds. Colin Herapath, Dungeness, England, was the first to answer correctly. “It would be no other than Sir Chay Blyth who rowed across the Atlantic in a dory with John Ridgeway, then entered and failed to finish the first Golden Globe Race and then convinced British Steel to fund his attempt to sail from England non-stop around the world west-about against the Roaring Forties and return to England. He did it. They made only one of Sir Chay.”<\/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\/40277"}],"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=40277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40279,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40277\/revisions\/40279"}],"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=40277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}