@SimpleSailor

Well, what is IT! Please???????

@RossM. I got it in 4 tries, but I have no clue as to why it should be anything nautical.

@Avoca ME TOO 6 TRYS

@Avoca Completely agree. It is a stupid question.

I don't get it.

Are we looking the word for something useful? Or an object that is useful?

I put 'compass', and failed.

Phew... for a moment there I thought Wordle might spell it 'gail'...

@RossM


Hahaha...

@Avoca NO NO that's on the aircraft manufacturer's identification plate

@RossM


Ummmm, gee, that's a hard one... ummm.

This...?

@Avoca so, 2 guesses to name what's on the RCAF wing roundel. (you won't need the second guess)

@RossM

Haha...

Protection from friendly fire I assume, given who we usually go to war with...

@Avoca Wait a minute, remind me again? What is on the wing roundels of the RAAF??

@roycv

Yup, I remember people jibbing things they disagreed with.


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to be unwilling to do or continue with something:
[ + -ing verb ] Although the tax is unpopular, the government has jibbed at abolishing it completely.
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But I would say jib is a different word to jibe.

My father long gone to his rest now, used to say " I jib at that" meaning he objected to something. No idea where that phrase came from, anyone know?
Roy

@RossM

Fair enough.

Well, on that logic, a Union Jack on the flag is better than a kangaroo I guess.

But, then we did use one on our flag when, for the first time in 132 years, we beat the American's at their own yacht race.

@jumpugly

Sure, there is an endless variety of how you say, in this case, gybing, but there is only one correct to spell gybing.

@jumpugly you think Fred and Ginger had a problem? My kids had to learn the difference between haggis and hummus. It's been an interesting 42 years around here

Ok, here we go...😉

@Avoca We got more maple leaf's here than Charlie's, so that's the way we went

Apparently the spelling book USA style is Webster's dictionary. It should be noted that Webster in his undoubted wisdom intentionally "simplified" English spelling missing out the u in harbour and many other words to distinguish it from English. So the spelling book is an intentional declaration of independence from the English we know, since then the use of some words has moved away from common usage in the UK. Pavement / side walk and so on.
It is not really a problem as apart from the fact there are more of them than us languages move on as you might expect.
As Churchill once said we are 2 countries divided by a common language. It is the way things are! Just be happy that the common language of the Internet is English, which has become the second language to many people.
Roy

@RossM

And... so sayeth the flock...

And, how did you guy's get away with no Union Jack on your flag???

I mean, ain't Charlie your boy too?

@EdW It appears that guns are not drawn, but that guns are run up!!

@SouthportPat

Mmmm, don't remember any sails on the Exxon Valdez though, but I guess that was an American tanker rather than ship.

Sheesh, who knew. I just call them all boats though.

@Avoca . . . and our big one harbor, harbour

Guys I told you so 🤣🤣🤣🤣

By definition A SHIP is a vessel with 3 or more masts with square sails on all the masts - therefore gybing is not the correct answer

Also they need to get the terminology correct - gybing/jibeing however you spell it is a small boat term - the question clearly states SHIP therefore the correct answer would have been WEARING - just my penneth and not dime !!

It just goes to prove AI does not always get it right !

@SouthportPat


Ahhh, but Wordle is American owned these days!

Colonization by stealth is what I'm concerned about...

Also the question in ambiguous - the boom moves across the boat/ship/yacht from one side to the other whether it is in tacking or wearing/gybing - IMHO the question should have read The act of changing the direction of a sailing ship by moving the boom across the boat - taking the stern through the wind !

Bloody American spelling - but isn't the correct term to wear - I was always taught a gybe in an uncontrolled wear !! Thought this was a British run board !!

@roycv

Jibing... that's what 'brothers from da hood' do init?

Looks like another cheque/check or colour/color issue to me.

...and, 1693 TRUMPS 1776 any day.

I have never heard of jibing! Might even refer to the jib?
Roy

@roycv

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The spelling is incorrect!
Roy

@Avoca my first instinct too

@EdW

Well, 'tacking' don't fit. So....?

This one will cause some people to kick off 🤣

@Avoca
so did I. I'm not alone

I thought it was gybing.

🙈🙉🙊

My interest in 'History Channel' pays dividends .. again😀

My interest in wild guesses paid off this time.
😅

So my interest in the crusades and the Ottoman Empire finally pays off

Here is one for Javier Milei

@Steves-s I don’t like the venue and was away on leave anyway - by all accounts not a patch on what it used to be

SouthportPat
Yes you're right, another 30 days to get back to the original score .
😑😑
I enquired about you on the Southport stand at Blackpool last week on the Saturday, you must have been AWOL 😂😁.

@Steves-s Well that beggars our scores up if you bothered about that

Hi Pat, I haven't been able to get on the site also.😐😐
I thought that I had messed something up on my phone 🤔 so I went on my pc and that wouldn't load up the website from my emails either.😣😥 I spent too much time on Google for a set of answers and tried most of the options.😲😟😢 None worked.
I was about to give up on the website and not bother any more, then I thought that you all might think that I had " kicked the bucket--popped my clogs "..☠😱👹.
Anyway I have just had to log back in ( having put in the wrong password 3 times )💥💥. All I need to do now is find out why I haven't been getting any model boat emails since 22nd of September...

Has this site been down the last couple of days had trouble getting in 😓

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