{"id":44982,"date":"2025-11-05T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=44982"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:04:59","slug":"mindbender-545","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2025\/11\/mindbender-545\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In olden times, leadsmen called out the water depth in fathoms. What is the depth of the cry, from Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>The Tempest,<\/em> of &#8220;full fathom five.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Send your answers to <a href=\"george@bwsailing.com\">george@bwsailing.com.<\/a> A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who sent in answers to the last mindbender question on the phrase &#8220;east is least and west is best.&#8221; The winner this week is Stephen Teatro, sv Jabiroo, an IP 35, who is presently on the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. He emailed: &#8220;This term\u00a0<span class=\"markri5m86kjf\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">is<\/span>\u00a0a pneumonic used in converting a course from true to magnetic in North America.\u00a0 If variation\u00a0<span class=\"markri5m86kjf\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">is<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markfng9mtnw8\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">east<\/span>, subtract variation or west, add the variation.\u00a0 Also, wind direction from NOAA\u00a0<span class=\"markri5m86kjf\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">is<\/span> in degrees true, so the magnetic variation should be applied and the pneumonic can be used.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In olden times, leadsmen called out the water depth in fathoms. What is the depth of the cry, from Shakespeare&#8217;s The Tempest, of &#8220;full fathom five.&#8221; &nbsp; Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. &nbsp; Thanks to everyone who sent in answers to the last mindbender question on the phrase &#8220;east is least and west is best.&#8221; The winner this week is Stephen Teatro, sv Jabiroo, an IP 35, who is presently on the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. He emailed: &#8220;This term\u00a0is\u00a0a pneumonic used in converting a course from true to magnetic in North America.\u00a0 If variation\u00a0is\u00a0east, subtract variation or west, add the variation.\u00a0 Also, wind direction from NOAA\u00a0is in degrees true, so the magnetic variation should be applied and the pneumonic can be used.&#8221;<\/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\/44982"}],"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=44982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44984,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44982\/revisions\/44984"}],"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=44982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}