MISC
This is the date of Jimmy’s birthday
What is May 10th?
This is the line or bar the base of the mainsheet travels across.
What is the traveller?
🙋🏼♂️help my name is Foofy! I am in my sailboat but I’m not going anywhere. My sail is flapping above my head. What point of sail am I on?
What is the no go zone (or irons)?
When on this tack you have to give way to the opposite tack
What is port tack?
The knot named after Adam’s second favourite number
What is the 8 knot (or figure 8 knot)?
How you spell Blake and Austin’s last name
What is Lesesne?
The sail control that pulls the boom down towards the hull and tightens the leech
What is the boom vang?
The point of sail between close haul and beam reach
What is close reach?
This vessel has right of way between starboard or leeward vessels
Who is the starboard vessel?
This 🪢
What is the square knot?
This is what the letters BCSB stand for.
What is Beaufort community sailing and boating?
The sail control that tightens or loosens the foot of the sail
What is the outhaul
This is the fastest point of sail
What is a beam reach?
The number of boat lengths required from the mark before an overlapping inside vessel is entitled room
What is 3 boat lengths?
Knot nicknamed the king of all knots, we use it on a sunfish to tie the main sheet onto the traveller.
What is the bowline
Noah’s real name
who is William?
The sail control that tightens or loosens the luff of the sail
what is the Cunningham?
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The term “in irons” was coined when criminals aboard old sailing ships were secured to the deck with leg-irons, unable to move. This is not unlike the no go zone when the boat is unable to move, and hence this is where the term irons come from.
When one vessel is overtaking another, this vessel has right of way
What is the overtaken vessel?
Similar to a square knot, used to tie two lines of different thickness or rigidity.
What is a sheets bend?
The name of Henry and Adam’s secret brother
Who is Paul?
The two parts of the hinge that fixes the rudder to the transom
What are the pintle and gudgeon?
This maneuver is used on boats with a mainsail and a jib, in which the jib is backwinded and the boat is steered and held into the wind
What is heaving to (or to be hove to)
When on the water, this vessel(s) is responsible for avoiding collisions
What is all of them?
The name of the knot that you tie when you mess up a square knot (ex: right over left, right over left)
What is the granny knot?