As one wrong answer dropped off the end, another one started on its 30 day journey.
As they say when one door closes another slams you in the face!

Roy

Well I got that one wrong. Although I think there were two correct answers. I just chose the wrong one 😠 "B" is equally correct.

Shiver me timbers! That was an easy one!

What will they think of next? Fighting tactics from over 200 years ago.

The system gets you as abstaining to answer is the same as getting it wrong.
Never mind eh!
Roy

Well it seems I am climbing the list very slowly

Not the terminology I would have used - I would have called it a jamming cleat but by process of elimination it could be nothing else

How can I get back the app on my iPhone. I have lost it. The other day when I tried to login it kept trying to get me to log into PayPal so I deleted it. More than a dozen times it wanted me to log into PayPal.
I want the App back and I cannot find it???🙄🙄

I don’t know anything about sailing, so I got today’s question wrong.
Oh well that’s that, down the the list I go.👎

I have seen the Moths with hydrofoils! How do they do it!

Also paddleboards with foils and an electric drive, weird to see.

Roy

Sailing single handers, such as International Moth, which goes like a bat out of hell, with 70 square feet of mainsail, and weighing barely 70 pounds, the central mainsheet on a traveller had a cam cleat - absolutely vital for taking some of the strain off your arms. The traveller also had cam cleats - so called because they looked like the clams as used on gears - but equally called jam cleats, as they jammed the sheet/halyard.

I learnt to sail on a GP14 then a bloody big GRP boat called an ASC in the Sea Cadets

Re- 4065 I learnt in a Wayfarer on a RYA course down by the coast. One of the best remembered courses ever for me.

I did not sail a lot but got a few invites and other courses, but sailed several different ones and then helped to teach the Sea Scouts near where I live now.

Refence to James Wharram there is a Model Boats plan of one of his catamarans and a couple of months later they had to apologise as the author of the plans had failed to ask permission from Wharram.

Roy

I would suggest 'in grandfathers day', for Traditional.

Vintage for parents childhood and Antique for 100 years+

I would qualify as 'Traditional but much restored',😀😀😀😀

Roy

I learned to sail in a Graduate, a Scorpion and a , I think it was called a Fireball in the mid seventies all had jam cleats to keep the tension on the sheets. The bosses Warram catamaran had winches as described by Doug. If memory serves there was a button or small lever that allowed the winch to freewheel when going about..

From Alessandro's suggestion answering the question within 40 seconds would be a maximum score and half this for 'looking it up'.
The last few questions would for me have been no-brainers. But the rules and regs ones to do with SOLAS and with the answer a reference number were totally out of my experience. Reference to buoys, OK signal flags just forgotten the little I did know.

I did most of the theory side of a Yachtmasters course 50 years ago but then it was a big memory test, in many ways easier now as there is so much support equipment.

For instance listening to a weather forecast and noting all of it on to the weather map and then drawing the lines of pressure working out the pattern of what was happening. Usually a depression coming in across the Atlantic. Predicting the resultant weather and wind velocity and direction and what it will be like for the next 12 hours.

That was a small part of it! (signal flags and the morse code and passage making to follow). I did not attend the exam, no point as I had started at the top end and missed out the previous 3 years.
Went back to sailing dinghys and making models.

Roy

I agree the traditional made me think but I was using clam cleats earlier in the year for raising the sails and tensioning other items like the boom vang.

But the sail sheets normally get worked from the self tailing sail winches, most odd from engineering practices as you place a splined crank into the top and wind, but if you want more 'pull' you reverse direction.

The important part is to take the crank handle out and put it back in its holder!

Roy

How old does something have to be to be traditional?

I'm with you Doug. "traditional" threw me.
BTY, is AI traditional?

I've always known them as jam cleats...

Oh bbbbother!☹️
I thought Cam cleats are bit too modern and sophisticated to have been used on 'traditional' vessels. More likely on modern racing yachts.
Back to the thinking board!🤔
Don't get your halyards in twist folks.
Doug😎

Hi Pat, I think that AndyN invited me to this game (and also to the site) saying that it was a good pastime. He was right.

Some time ago I thought of a way to solve the issue of consulting external sources (web, books, etc. etc.) rather than relying only on one's own knowledge and memory. In reality, the system I had thought of did not totally exclude the possibility of consulting external sources but rewarded the answer without using these sources more. It was proportional and progressive. However, I have never proposed it yet and I do not know how feasible it is from a computer science point of view (even if, given Stephen's skills, I think it is feasible).

Gets harder the further up the ladder you get

And a game that’s quite difficult in parts

It’s a very addictive game

Hi Hermank, yes it's just a game but it takes a month for that (red) stain to go away on its own, ahahahah.

Alessandro mio amigo italiano
It is only a game!!! But i like to thank you for your kindly action to increase the points in the score.
I appreciate to have so much friends on this fantastic forum
Thank you, thank you
Enjoy your weekend

Could you please cancel Hermank's red line? Since the mistake is not his fault.

Big jump for me to get any further up the leaders board

I don’t think some of these question are anything to do with ships or modeling - just my opinion

Lucky guess today 🤞😆

Ghosts on this forum?!?!
I answer todays question and then it says: “ you have already answered”
How many Herman K are there?!?!?!?!

Gulf of Maine, Bay of Fundy... lot's of piles down this way. Not just the kind driven in either...🤣

Piling on the revs now.
Only 17 days to go to Home Plate😁

😎

Kinda looks like a goiter, but it sounds good.😀

1965 the USN Garcia de1040 had that bow which housed the sonar array

On reading about the bulbous bow some years ago it is tuned to the ships usual or economic speed.

The idea is to produce a wave pattern 180 degrees out of phase with the ship's natural wave pattern, thus reducing induced or form drag created by the hull shape and speed of the ship.

I remember a tourist trip around Hamburg Harbour in a 35 foot boat and that had a bulbous bow and I wondered how effective it was.
Roy

If I recall correctly, Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano were the first, or the first notable, ships built with bulbous bows. I believe that it was documented to have significantly reduced the resistance and enhance their speeds as well as endurance.

I am surprised how ell I am doing - without having asked Mr Google for help :-)

My luck will run out soon I am sure!!

Good morning to all naval modelers.
The bulbous bow is very well known.
Who hasn't noticed this protuberance on recent warships, cruise ships, tankers, etc. etc.?
The bulbous bow reminded me of a class of ships of the Italian Navy, the Thaon di Revel class of patrol boats.
As patrol boats they are quite atypical, first of all the displacement of 6000 tons (of the full version) is more suited to a fighter (Destroyer) or a frigate than to an offshore patrol boat.
The same goes for the armament and the hangar of the large helicopter (SH-90 or EH-101).
This has generated some perplexity in the homeland about its role, since it integrates rooms and systems for rescue and rescue in the open sea.
However these are not the peculiarities of these ships but rather the original shape of the bow.
In this case we cannot speak of a classic bulb but of a real rostrum. If you see it out of the water it looks like a double overlapping bow.
I (from an aesthetic point of view) do not like it but I believe it has its effectiveness in navigation.
However, this solution is not present in the fighters in the design phase, which return to the classic bulb solution.

FOUR right in a row! I've gone from 3-17% .
Watch out. Allasandro and Rubadub, I am gunning for your spots!😂😂😂

In reality, I believe it is now the norm and no one hides it.
Try reading past messages to realize it (if you have the will and patience and time).

I do wonder how many contributors are tempted to ask Mr Google the answer to some question to enhance their score to make them look good

I would like to think none of- but knowing what people are like and some can get competitive

I agree with Alessandro - however - I do find some of the question regarding regulations quite difficult - i mean things like SOLAS reg - never had any need to study them but the rest I great

Personally, I like all the topics that concern nautical science:
naval history, war and non-war events, even myths and legends, travels and explorations, architecture and construction techniques of ships, civil and military naval classifications, international regulations and conventions, naval sports competitions, parades and naval events, cartography, meteorology, marine animal species, naval cinematography and also nautical knots, as well as naval modeling.
This is just my taste.

How come I went for answer A
and I didn’t get the down drops of glittery stuff. I don’t know if it’s registered that I got today’s correct???

Well that was interesting. I always thought you could only play Fenders and they had various numbers of strings depending the application 😉

Hi Doug you are right but I should have posted it the day before!😆😆😆😆😆

Sorry Doug it is a bit like that joke when the doctor says I have some good news and bad news. Tell me the good news, well you have only 24 hours to live! Distraught the man says whats the bad news? I should have told you yesterday! Ta daaaa!
Roy

I would be more than happy to compile a few questions for the kitty, I would of course refrain from answering my own questions...

Well here's my twopenneth.. It's a bit of fun, no one is forced to participate, I find the SOLAS and buoyage questions quite interesting, are they relevant? I think so. Are not steering and tug towing regattas based on "Rule of the Road" and correct navigation techniques? It all has relevance in my humble opinion, surely an interest in model shipbuilding is part of a greater interest in all things nautical
Retreated behind sandbags to await incoming flack...