The North Star points to the geographic north, what constellation points to the geographic south pole?<\/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 answered last week’s Mindbender.\u00a0 The winner this week is Claire Foudey, Rockport, ME who correctly answered last week’s question on where you would find a truck on a sailboat. She emailed: “You don’t find a lot of trucks on boats. But there is one at the top of old wooden masts. It’s a round or oval cap to a mast’s top spar with holes in its edges for flag halyards. When it’s time to hoist colors, the lanyard will run through the truck. Whoo knew?.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The North Star points to the geographic north, what constellation points to the geographic south pole? 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 answered last week’s Mindbender.\u00a0 The winner this week is Claire Foudey, Rockport, ME who correctly answered last week’s question on where you would find a truck on a sailboat. She emailed: “You don’t find a lot of trucks on boats. But there is one at the top of old wooden masts. It’s a round or oval cap to a mast’s top spar with holes in its edges for flag halyards. When it’s time to hoist colors, the lanyard will run through the truck. Whoo knew?.”<\/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\/40499"}],"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=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40504,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions\/40504"}],"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=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}