Another lucky guess.
Once again knowing nothing about sailing ships/boats it was a guess.

Once again an anti landlubber question. . . . 🤕

Like an 'O' Level question.

Read and read the question, then the optional answers and see which one is the best fit!!

Oh dear! I got confused and pleed diminished ability to understand a question with long answers! It is probably old age but the other option to old age is not one I would make either.

confused
Roy

Easy peasy today (ketches having been discussed at length several months ago😉)
Only 22 days to go now😊🤞

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O well got this one wrong today. Hopefully will do better tomorrow. Learning some new things😊

Light is definitely not right!! 🤔

My father used to say, “sharp for sand.”
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Wrong today, bad guess. If Danforth anchor was listed I would have got it right!

It did seem any answer was correct once again ,so i used that fickle finger of fate to guess. And bingo i was write.
Philuk👍

I got it right today too, can't be a fluke 😁

This was a hard question for me. Took me quite a while to eliminate some of the multiple choice answers. Got it right today 😊👍

I agree... I went for the French one!! 😊

What sounds and looks French 🤔...
and what doesn't??😉
A and C were clear, and I was pretty sure that D was either Dutch or Danish.
A bientot mes Amis,Doug😎

i agree, does not make sense! Just makes for confusion, Just can't fathom it!

Fathom meaning to encircle or get round something, my dad used the word but no one else as far as I know. "I just can't fathom it".
The start of an aproximate distance of finger tips across a man's body seems about right.

I did a search and no where does it discuss any other version of the fathom, going into many decimal points for the exact measurement. I tend to remember trivia information, but will not bother with this!

Roy

If they want to compensate surely it should be shorter as in B? No, AI is wrong.

Having taught Navigation and some Hydrography I’m really enjoying these types of questions. The Admiralty had defined the fathom as 1000th of a Nautical Mile as there is no agreed International definition of a fathom, still isn’t as it never became an SI Unit.

Only quibble with the question is that a Nautical mile equates to 1,852m so the fathom is 1.852m not 1.854m

Should be 6ft.

As agreed when AI goes wrong… we’ll regenerate a new question for the day shortly.

Stephen

This reason sounds a bit 'Iffy' to me!! Did mariners use Lead Lines at all in deep water?? And B or D are the same answer!!

Get real AI!!

I guessed right but still wrong😂😂😂

I was sure it was 6 feet exactly, seems a bit of a stupid measurement 6,1 but the ai God must be obeyed.
Philuk👍

After a quick bit of research, nowheee does it say a Fathom is 6ft 1 inch. The only refrences I can find show 6ft dead. .

It should be 6ft!

O well got this wrong today, thought it was 6 ft even. I now have 4 wrong. Hopefully will do better tomorrow🤔😊👍

Well spotted Doug! Lusitania was carrying war supplies so this somewhat backfired on the Allies.

Roy

Hey ho! We're back to the 'What happened on ...?' questions.🙄

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Didn’t need one- the kids could spot me a mile off!!

One of the few questions I was definite about, having been racing dinghies and yachts for too many years to remember - can be a dangerous manouevre to get just right, and send the opposition onto the other tack which they will do their best to avoid. The bigger the boat the bigger the risk of collision and major damage.

I'm down to 26 days now Peter🙄
Thanks today to a guess inspired by some 'word association'.😉
Cheers, Doug😎

Perhaps having 10 model yachts has a small advantage after all.
Roy

Like me, 30 days Doug?🥹

It's all about Tactics today!

One I actually remembered from my collection of MacGregor Clipper Ship books.
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I didn't answer yesterdays question, so dropped in % again .
But I took a well well well lucky stab at a guess at todays answer.
What a lucky guess it was.👍😁.
I know nothing about sailing⛵. I a not a fan of sail boats myself.

Hi all answer in question only answer with lower in it .
Philuk👍

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Another relatively simple process of elimination today.
Yoohoo. Only 27 days to go now ...
until my last cock-up drops off the score sheet🙄

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Should have gone with my guess. Dammit!

Sometimes guessing works had no idea
Rick

I had no idea but the answer was pointed to by the question, at least in my warped head it was.😃

This required an educated guess which in my case was correct. Yes, they are getting more obscure.

Pook, as Garfield would say🐱
Now another 30 day slog before me☹️
This question is reminiscent of the problem Boeing had with the rudder control unit of the 737s. Under certain conditions it could jam 'hard over' or even reverse itself! Caused 3 fatal crashes and a complete fleet refit.
Cheers All, Doug😎

These questions are getting obscure again as more score descends again!

I had heard that this confusing command may have been the cause of the Titanic running into the iceberg. Nicely got Titanic back on the agenda!
Roy

Oh well 👎got this one wrong, better luck tomorrow I hope. 🤔🤔

Was doing better in the past days, got this one wrong today. Live and learn will do better tomorrow. These questions are fun, thank you😊👍

Oh dear, Doug.🤡

It was a long time ago as I was doing a theory part of the RYA one below the Yachtmasters course. Never finished it as the instructor was the worst ever.

Never blamed an instructor before or since but this guy organized the course to learn morse in one week and the next week to learn signal flags and the next week to learn weather forecasting when they should have been spread over the entire course length.
Many dropped out and I gave up for the last 3 weeks and half had gone by then!

Roy

Roy, where this becomes very important is when a sextant is used in aircraft navigation, ie the square root of 10000.
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No brainer today😊

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Some years ago I remember taking sextant measurements but I never did or was never taught to do this! On the other hand I was not lost either.

Is this where the expression the 'square root of f** a* comes from'?
Roy