After getting the question right this morning and apparently no-one ahead of me, I did a re-start! so currently downloading the new me.

Congratulations Doug on your spelling!

I have a question. If you think everyone is against you and then you find that they really are. Is this still paranoia?
Just to show that you are not the only one what can spell like I does.
Shades of M & W.
Roy

I seem to recall this asked before although phrased differently. That time dead reckoning was said to be incorrect. Perhaps AI learned something from the comments posted.

Roy,
(1,2 or3? How long have been into schizophrenia? How bout dat😉managed to spell that without Mr Google or Microsoft complaining😁)
John Hanning Speke was the guy who found Livingstone with the (most likely apocryphal) words- 'Dr Livingstone I presume.'
These words do not appear in either Speke's or Livingstone's diary accounts of their meeting.
As I've said before - watch more Nat Geo and History Channel.😁
Cheers All, Doug😎

@luckyduck. Yes that was my first throught also. Never heard of Speke until QoD. But Livingstone was the key star in the Rolux Magnum Lawnmower adverts on TV in South Africa. 😊 In the ad he was acosted by a group of men while mowing a path from Cape Town to Cairo. And since I saw it on TV it was my childhood truth. 🤣

Puuuuuuuh!!
What do you call the sail that is used to propel the boat when sailing against the wind?

Am I right in saying this?
Against the wind, i.e. close to the wind (max. 40-45 degrees) is usually the mainsail and the jib or, if there is less wind, the genoa.
Right or wrong? Explain it to me landlubber . . . . (Freshwater captain)
Best greetings, your
Michel-C.

Good question, however
also, not a model boat question

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Just checked multiple sources including Brittannica, and Speke is the answer - just proves you should not listen to your school teachers, who drummed it into us it was Livingstone😆

Roy - perhaps the answer is to re-build yourself as Roy3 - if nothing else it might help to confuse the system even further, and with a new identity, just get one answer right, and you are at 100% immediately!!

Having been educated in South Africa, the African explorers were drummed into us. Now I know why, it was for question of the day 🤣

Neither have I. I am sticking with Livingstone.
Roy

I have never heard of John Speke - going down rapidly in my score having spent quite a bit of time at 100% - now down to 88% with just a few wrong answers!
I wish prices of goods and bills went down as quickly!!😂😂

I am getting worried! I went to a post that said I had to answer the question of the day before it revealed the post.

Now I do not know if I am Roy1 afterall! It was already answered by either Roy1 or 2.
I think I am going back to bed and start Saturday again. Not getting up again til I throw a 6.

??????

I think I am living a parallel life with another entity.
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I went straight to Q o D and was accepted without getting the usual response 'You have to answer the QoD.

I looked at the question. Roy2 (me) has not seen this before. Roy1 must have answered it correctly. I answered it, but then i got a pop up that said I had already answered the question!

It was then I found out I had the wrong answer. We all know the computer must be right. So I must be Roy2.

I hope he does not alter the password as then I shall be Roy2 gone. Is this the Last Post for me? Will the next one be the other guy Roy1?

Roy2

Mainsail.
Roy

s0 which sail was the correct one, I was out all day and never got the chance to attempt an answer?

Hi re the sailing question. The mainsail is as it says the main sail. Genoa is a large version of the Jib the clew can be pulled to the stern and past the main mast. You have to use a winch to do this as the forces are very high.

It forms a wind slot to accelerate the air passing over the main sail. This increases the pulling power of the mainsail by creating a low pressure area.

Storm jib is a cut down jib when riding out heavy winds.
Spinnaker is a large balloon sail which is hoisted out at the base on a pole at the bow and is for light winds when running with the wind. It is made of light weight material but not easy to handle.

A Gennaker is a combination of the genoa and spinnaker largely used in racing.

A yacht is best sailed as upright as possible but usually at 10 - 15 degrees from upright. If/when it heels over more, reduce the sail area. With a modern spinnaker they are furled around a second fore-stay and mounted on a bearing which can be twisted, to unwind or wind in the sail from the cockpit using either of two ropes which are operated from the cockpit.

To reduce the area you slacken off the line holding the sail out and pull on the rope which spins the base of the furled sail and wind in the sail.

You will often see a broad stripe of blue or similar dark canvas as a stripe on the back of this sail. If you imagine when fully wound in position on the fore stay, then the sail would just show the blue stripe.

This is a sacrificial strip of material that takes the punishment of the Ultra violet rays from the sun and is easily replaced, so saving the expensive sail. As it gets older the sacrificial strip gets lighter in colour.

Sails on a yacht are usually made from Dacron which is the American name for terrilyn (there are various spellings), and is a man made fibre which deteriorates in bright sunlight.

The main sail is wound down to rest on the main boom between not obvious brailing ropes and so into a long narrow canvas bag attached to the main boom which can be zipped up so not allowing the UV light to penetrate.

A 40 foot yacht costs around £10K per year to maintain!

Regards
Roy

I don't know anything about sailing either pure guess but right ,more luck than judgement🤣🤣
Philuk 👍

Now that's a weird question

You can see that AI knows very little about sailing
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Beautiful photo Commodore. Looks like Switzerland.

yes, Lake Louise is beautiful, it is in Canada
It has nothing to do with model boats

Re: Aug 22 question.
I have been there!
And, in fact have canoed on Lake Louise.
I agree with Ed that it has little to do with our hobby.
Having said that, it is possibly the most beautiful place in nature I have ever been.
Yes, Nick, you do need a lake to sail a boat. But this one is glacier fed, and mighty cold.
There is no swimming out on rescue missions here.
Dave B

Finally, a Canadian question again!👍

Ed, you need a lake to sail a boat?

I fail to see any connection, however tenuous, between our hobby and this question.
These questions are more suited to a geography quiz.

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Déjà vu ... encore!🙄

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. . . unless it is frozen at the time (ARCTIC OCEAN). I'm in Canada. It cuts down on the snow squalls a bit. I used to pray for the LAKES to freeze early so the snow squalling would stop

BTW, any wind crossing an ocean picks up moisture.

The question didn’t mention Volkswagen either, but I got it “right”😁

Hmmm!
On an oceanographic research cruise out of Toulon on IFREMER’s Le Suroît we were hit with gale force winds as we sailed out of port. Five French scientists (PhD’s) & the entire French research vessel crew were groaning about “la Mistral”. We really took a beating (bunk falling out from beneath you) until about 0200 when we caught a brief lull in the howling wind. Gee! Do you think the French scientists & ship’s crew were misinformed! I Highly DOUBT IT! They obviously had seen the movie before & knew damned well what they were talking about.
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My memory is great when it comes to answers to these questions, it’s only bad when I have to remember why I came into a room or the name of someone I have just been introduced to
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There's me thinking this was a memory or knowledge test! Duh!
Roy

I use RI. Thats why my average is 100 😂 RI works like this. First you take the 4 options and then you decide which one is most probably being confused with a facebook post. Then you verify that option using reliable maritime journals. 👍

My everyday AI companion Lost it's mind on that question ( Sorry, looks like something went wrong. Let's start over.) So I took a guess & got it right.

20 AUG
The island listed is not in any of the listed answers so have not submitted one

Yes Flaxby.👍
Tajo is the Spanish name, Tejo the Portugese.
PS: It seems that Tagus is the original Latin name of the river, which was incorporated into English.🤓
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I believe the river is called the Tejo or Tajo rather than Tagus. Maybe this is an anglicised version of the name ? 😉

Darn it. Got my geography mixed up. I chose Dora misreading it for the Douro which of course flows into the Atlantic through Porto and is only 897 km long while the Tagus is 1,007 km long. Learn something new every day. 😀

August 18th is another question I simply cannot answer, because the correct answer is not one of the choices.
I don't want to guess which of the 4 incorrect answers are the one AI wants me to pick, as there is a 75% chance of guessing the wrong, wrong answer.
Dave B

According to real intelligence and other Boomers and GenXers , Goggle has gained the top spot for fake information since it introduced Fake Intelligence into its search algorythms. This FI scrapes the internet for content but fails to fact check it. So if it scraped 10 sites spreading false information it will become the truth, the Google truth and nothing close to the truth. 👍

The first ship to use a marine chronometer for accurate navigation was HMS Deptford. This ship carried John Harrison’s H4 chronometer on a voyage to Jamaica in 1761-176212. This successful test demonstrated the chronometer’s ability to determine longitude accurately, revolutionizing maritime navigation.

Check AI none of the four is corect. HM Centurion is listed on Goggle as the corect answer.
Rick

Another “none of the above” questions, only got it correct because I got it wrong last time it appeared.
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Hi Nick-t-s sorry some bad news coming.

Are you ready?

It is not 10 days but 30 days and no time off for good behaviour, so don't ask!

Calculation is on a rolling 30 days cycle.
Roy

Wcmbc. A Gansie is a traditional Cornish fisherman's jumper...

@Nickthesteam I am assuming that was meant to be Onezie and not Ganzie?? 🤣 horrid garments; even at night.

Another fake answer. The K1 was first used in 1772 by James Cook. The K1 was a copy of the H4 by Harrison. The HMS Beagle was launched in 1820 so it wasnt the first ship to carry a MC. It was in fact the Resolution.

Donner und blitzen! My run at 100%haz also ended. Gown to 96%. How can 1 wrong answer loose you 4 points, yet you need to answer about 10 correctly before you get the points back?🤔🤔🤔

I guess it WASN'T Captain Hook . . . 😁

Oh well a nice run at 100% and finally got it wrong. I went for the HMS Bounty. So I now drop to 96% it will take forever again to get back up to the top again.