Boat Building
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OYC / Sailing History
Potpourri
Instructors
100

This rope is used to pull up sails

What is the Halyard


100
This point of sail is the closest to the no-go-zone

What is upwind?

100

THis is the largest sailboat the the OYC owns.

What is a Sonar?

100

This is the amount of bones in the human body

What is 206?

100

This is an instructor from Argentina

Who is Guido?

200

This category of ropes are used to trim sails

what are sheets?

200

The skipper sits on this side of the boat when on a downwind

What is the leeward side?

200

This is the most valuable object in the Hodgepodge Scavenger Hunt

What is the sorcerer's stone

200

Trombone, French Horn and Tuba are all this type of instrument

What is brass?

200

This city is where Eli lives during the year

What is Paris?

300

On an opti, these are used to keep the boat afloat in the case of a capsize

Airbags

300

We can use these to ensure that we are sailing upwind.

What are telltales?

300

This is the year when OYC was founded

When was 1933?

300
He was the first man to walk on the moon

Who was Neil Armstrong?

300

This is the color of Griffin's eyes

What is blue?

400

These keep the sail's shape while sailing to ensure maximum airflow

Battens

400

This is the fastest way to tack in low wind

What is a roll tack?

400

This is a common match-racing style sailing tournament hosted every four years

What is the America's Cup?

400

This is the best selling music artist of all time

WHo are the beetles?
400

This is the month of Reilly's Birthday

What is August?

500

This part connects the boom to the mast

What is the Gooseneck?

500

While tight-reaching with the spinnaker, this is what you should do if the spinnaker collapses

What is Head down and/or trim the spinnaker

500
This was the color of the Yacht Club before it changed to its current colors

What is red?

500

He wrote the Star Spangled Banner

Who is Francis Scott Key?

500

This is the amount of siblings that Viv and Hazel have collectively

What is 3
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