{"id":41465,"date":"2023-08-28T18:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=41465"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:43:48","slug":"mindbender-446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2023\/08\/mindbender-446\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When sitting in your boat&#8217;s cockpit with you eyes at sic feet above the water, how par away is the horizon?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all readers who sent in answers to last week&#8217;s Mindbender. The winner this week is Hans Fromm, St. Paul, MN who emailed: &#8220;In boat terms, initial stability is the combination of the hull&#8217;s form stability, or shape, and weight distribution, or location of the ballast. In short, the beamier the hull and the deeper the ballast, the more initial stability a design will have.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When sitting in your boat&#8217;s cockpit with you eyes at sic feet above the water, how par away is the horizon? &nbsp; Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing magazine. &nbsp; Thanks to all readers who sent in answers to last week&#8217;s Mindbender. The winner this week is Hans Fromm, St. Paul, MN who emailed: &#8220;In boat terms, initial stability is the combination of the hull&#8217;s form stability, or shape, and weight distribution, or location of the ballast. In short, the beamier the hull and the deeper the ballast, the more initial stability a design will have. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41363,"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\/41465"}],"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=41465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41467,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41465\/revisions\/41467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}