{"id":44763,"date":"2025-08-27T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=44763"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:20:16","slug":"mindbender-536","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2025\/08\/mindbender-536\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is an NACA foil and where would you find one on your boat?<\/p>\n

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Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com.<\/a> A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week’s question. The winner this week is regular Mindbender contributor Jeff Peters who emailed: “TBT<\/span>. Also known as Tributyltin is an organic tin compound used in anti-fouling paints. It\u2019s use has been banned globally on ships since 2008.”<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: While banned by the IMO and other regulatory bodies, TBT anti-fouling coatings are still available in countries and regions without effective enforcement agencies, such as the Caribbean and Central America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is an NACA foil and where would you find one on your boat?   Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.   Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to last week’s question. The winner this week is regular Mindbender contributor Jeff Peters who emailed: “TBT. Also known as Tributyltin is an organic tin compound used in anti-fouling paints. It\u2019s use has been banned globally on ships since 2008.” Editor’s note: While banned by the IMO and other regulatory bodies, TBT anti-fouling coatings are still available in countries and regions without effective enforcement agencies, such as the Caribbean and Central America.<\/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\/44763"}],"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=44763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44765,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44763\/revisions\/44765"}],"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=44763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}