It never rains ...
Get well soon Roy👍
Wise lady your daughter in law. I like her😉
Where do I send the bottle of Château Neuf du Tap?
All the best, Doug😎

Roy! Sheesh, might as well have it all happen at once. Especially with a doctor in the family! Rest up, get strong and hang in there! We luv's ya!!! Keep us in the loop.
😊😉

Keep us updated on how your recovery is doing.👍👍👍👍👍
Rick

Hi all trying to catch up as still 80 of these emails to go! I have had a mini-stroke, then a guts problem and then had a gall bladder removed, home now, or at least back to my son's house in Australia.

3 hospital admissions and 10 days in-side, but now some what nackered, hospitals very good here and the medical attention excellent and quick as well. It does help that my daughter in law is a Doctor/consultant in one of them, she says a good bottle of wine can move mountains!
Hope the rest of you are coping well.
Testing brain with son and I can still beat him at Crib!
Regards
Roy

Went with Pepys. Thought it was a lock. Damn!

Well after reading up about all of the people in the options I ruled out Sir William Petty but should have realised it was him as he had an interest in naval architecture. Samuel Pepys was in the British admiralty so I chose him. Interesting thing is Samuel Pepys and Sir William Petty knew each other. John Harrison invented the marine chronometer and Sir Francis Drake was a privateer. I like questions like this because it increases your knowledge while doing the investigation work 😀

No clue at all, missed the guess.

Another school 🏫 day 😪

Damn. Got that wrong

Totally went Cat too! Only rake I knew. 🤔

Todays question is total rubbish, the only sailing rig that I have seen with a raked mast are cats and trimarans. Never a sloop, cutter or ketch. Furthermore the only difference between a sloop and a cutter is that one has two foresails.

Hi Boatshed,
The %age is calculated over a 30 day period.
So it's not just the current, day 30 or front end, answer that matters.
What happens at the back end, day 1, also counts.
If you add a correct answer at the front and a correct answer drops off the back then there's no change. QED.
I'm in the same boat, having recently cocked up some sailing answers. As usual🙄
So I'll be stuck on 90%, 27/30 assuming correct answers, until the wrong answers work through to the back and drop out of the calculation.
Can take up to 3 or 4 weeks😐
Cheers, Doug🤓

Can anyone explain the % scoring on the Question of the Day.
I had a score of 90%, I got 1 QoD wrong and it dropped down to 86%.
I have answered 8 QoD's correct on the trot and I am still at 86%.
How does it work ???

Simple sailor you are still at your Mothers breast when i havé a look at your age !!! For européens thé english is thé most simple language on earth. I havé been travelling a lot throughout thé UK and when they start talking their local language i couldn’t understand one single word.
Luckely modelboat builders don’t need a language they speak and understand every language . Thé best example is this forum👍👍👍

Yes Hermank
Some of us don't have Windows. In fact, I am so old, I don't even have lights. It's Dos 3 and candles. So thinking is a bit of a challenge when it comes to "forrin laughwitches". The problem I have with English, is I never know if it's written in Leeds or Liverpool.

Simple saillir
I can give you only one advice
Reply to thé question of thé day AFTER your first cup of coffee or tea. Thén your computer between thé ears starts functioning.we do have à previous génération of computer . That’s all. This has nothing to do With thé âge of thé user!!

Here we go again. I was going to click Sloop so why did I click cutter? Old age I think 😀. Anyway a cutter generally has the mast set further back than a sloop so maybe that is why. https://uk.boats.com/on-the-water/sailing-boats-sailboat-types-rigs-uses-definitions/#mast-configuration-and-sails

Remember to use the answer to the question IN the question!😉

Hi guys great site but I am getting fed up with all this begging for money if I had money to I would give it, but I just don't have it, so please stop the begging bowl philuk👍

Here I was pondering on the answer for a while because I thought it was a trick question 😂

A “gimme” today…I’ll take it😁

Wow! No longer a case of déjà vu, more like ground hog days.😂😂😂

CTSMBC

Yes, it gets late early around here too

1 April came early this year!

Why am I wasting time looking and answering the questions of the day?


I am not worthy 🤣🤣🤣 ( really, it is only an ego booster! ).

If I need to sail the North Channel, I will bring a map with me 😁



Isaac

I am sinking like a stone. Dammit!

Oh my. I have a terrible feeling of déjà vu 😂

I’m not saying a word 🤔

Can I put the case for keeping Titanic. I don't know what it is right now but I bet there is one!
Roy

How come the Andrea Doria never makes the list? Titanic, Lusitania, Bismarck….no Andrea D….
We need a new list of wrong answers….🤣

PhilH,
Those Little Blue Diamond Shaped VAGRA? 😋pills, 🤣 Oh I don't know. My doctor , she says they are no good, won't help your memory. So what's the point of selling them😂😂?
They could be used as ballast I suppose.😆

Er! Remind me someone please ...
What were we talking about?🤔

😁😎

Hi I went out to buy some of those pills for memory but I could not think of the name of them!😁
Philuk 👍

I use memory enhancing pills but I often forget to take them.

Just discovered the memory trainer is not working at full strength for me! I blame Covid, though I did get this one from memory.

And another repeat Rockbag!
I've just realised the true purpose of QotD.
It's a memory trainer😉

😎

That has got to be the easiest question in a long time.

If I had gotten this wrong, I certainly would have deserved to either walk the plank, get keel hauled, or hung from the yard arm. Arrgh!

With some of the recent questions and answers I was tempted by the Bismarck or Titanic.🤔

Roy,
I'm doing my best to let the UK catch up.
Thanks to AI, I've got more wrong than correct lately .... sigh.
Dave B

Sorry cashrc when I meant behind, not going ahead together but catching up!!!!😊
More thought and I realise we are being duped so not to be!
This is a national thing we are being put in competition by the AI thing. This will not cause disruption to our interests. It is the old divide and rule concept and I nearly fell for it!
We must go forth and fight the evils of AI.

Together we win divided we fall.
Roy

As a member of the Great, Sovereign State of Texas I will throw in my hat to the cause….
Uhh….what are we volunteering for?😁

OK Simple Sailor,
Here you go!

😎

Ok. I will get back on board, but you might need to whistle me aboard even if I am just a Chief Petty Officer 😂😂😂😂👍

Hi Simple S... Think of England! we are behing the USA and need all the support we can get. Now is the time to say "Ask not what your country can do for you, but how you can do the other b*****s down"

We need your support otherwise I will find another poem!😀😀
Roy

Well you learn something new every day. My dad who was in the RAF always told me that SOS was "Save Our Souls" so I have never questioned it, but I suppose they had to put some meaning to it. So as the questions and and answers are getting questionable and my average over the past few months has dropped from 93% to now 69% I am thinking of giving up. 😉

Another dumb question, these are really getting a bit stupid

Do you know I thought that was Quite Easily Done as per our geometry classes
😀😀😀
Roy

Damn you AI !!!

Oy, another stupid question.

I am glad I am not a sailor in this navy!!!!!!!!!!!!😉

What an embarrassment.


Isaac