{"id":46323,"date":"2026-11-04T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=46323"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T18:50:07","slug":"mindbender-588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2026\/11\/mindbender-588\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>In the Northern Hemisphere, when the wind is &#8220;backing&#8221; what direction is the wind shifting, clockwise or counterclockwise?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to our ;ast questoin on the meanin of th eterm &#8220;hull down.&#8221; The winner this week is Patrick Broderick who emailed, &#8220;A vessel is \u201c<span class=\"markxihvi11g5\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-ogsbtc=\"\" data-ogsbrc=\"\" data-ogsbbc=\"\" data-ogsblc=\"\">hull<\/span> <span class=\"markevtsqh5p7\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\" data-ogsbtc=\"\" data-ogsbrc=\"\" data-ogsbbc=\"\" data-ogsblc=\"\">down<\/span>\u201d when only her sails can be seen at the horizon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers. &nbsp; In the Northern Hemisphere, when the wind is &#8220;backing&#8221; what direction is the wind shifting, clockwise or counterclockwise? &nbsp; Many thanks to everyone who sent in answers to our ;ast questoin on the meanin of th eterm &#8220;hull down.&#8221; The winner this week is Patrick Broderick who emailed, &#8220;A vessel is \u201chull down\u201d when only her sails can be seen at the horizon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23226,"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\/46323"}],"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=46323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46324,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46323\/revisions\/46324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}