george@bwsailing.com.<\/a> A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Thanks to everyione who sent in answers to last week’s question on”barber poling” in a sailboat’s rig. For the first time in a long, long time, no one got it right. The answer: in a sailboat’s rig with 1 x 19 wire stays and swaged turnbuckles, rust emerging from the top of a swaging creates a barber pole effect as the rust climbs one or more wire strands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why do old-fashioned lead lines have a hollow in the bottom of the lead weight? Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. Thanks to everyione who sent in answers to last week’s question on”barber poling” in a sailboat’s rig. For the first time in a long, long time, no one got it right. The answer: in a sailboat’s rig with 1 x 19 wire stays and swaged turnbuckles, rust emerging from the top of a swaging creates a barber pole effect as the rust climbs one or more wire strands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20659,"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\/44170"}],"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=44170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44170\/revisions\/44172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}