george@bwsailing.com.<\/a> A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Many thanks to all readers who sent in answers to last week’s question on hounds on a sailboat. The winner this week is Maureen Maitland, St. Paul, Minnesota,\u00a0 who emailed: “The hounds on a sailing ship are the attachment points for the side stays under the first set of spreaders. The term is from the days when masts were wood and stays were rope.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How far away is the visible horizon when you are standing on deck with your eyes 10 feet above the water? Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. Many thanks to all readers who sent in answers to last week’s question on hounds on a sailboat. The winner this week is Maureen Maitland, St. Paul, Minnesota,\u00a0 who emailed: “The hounds on a sailing ship are the attachment points for the side stays under the first set of spreaders. The term is from the days when masts were wood and stays were rope.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31479,"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\/43614"}],"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=43614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43615,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614\/revisions\/43615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}