{"id":45467,"date":"2026-03-18T18:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=45467"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:38:15","slug":"mindbender-559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/03\/mindbender-559\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the inter-tropical convergance zones?<\/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>Many thanks to everyone who replied to last week&#8217;s question on the pointer stars to Polaris. The winner this week is Ed Bushman, sv Vela who emailed: &#8220;<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The two stars at the outer edge of the Big Dipper (<span class=\"mark3m47xihl5\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Ursa<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markta2m13yxd\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Major<\/span>) point to the north star (Polaris).\u00a0 A straight line from these stars extend about 5x the distance to find Polaris.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the inter-tropical convergance zones? &nbsp; Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who replied to last week&#8217;s question on the pointer stars to Polaris. The winner this week is Ed Bushman, sv Vela who emailed: &#8220;The two stars at the outer edge of the Big Dipper (Ursa\u00a0Major) point to the north star (Polaris).\u00a0 A straight line from these stars extend about 5x the distance to find Polaris.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467"}],"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=45467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45468,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45467\/revisions\/45468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}