Mind you, with the new racing foil boats, the spinnaker would give an enormous lift onto the foils which would stablise the boat, but I have to agree with the other comments that I would not use a spinnaker to stabalise the boat unless it was a reasonable wind with a swell, when the spinnaker can assist in stablising.

I agree with singing... with a spinnaker up the yacht is vulnerable to small changes in wind direction and it is mainly for light winds only.

I anticipated the wrong answer and was marked as correct

As my score descends even lower, life is getting confusing. I hope we do not get fake questions as well!

Roy

I always think of Brown on Resolution a lesser known work of CS Forrester. Good read though.
Roy

Hi All, bit late replying here, but I’ll swap yesterdays answer to Endeavor later today or tomorrow (busy days at the moment!) so you’ll be honoured with the point for the 15th once I get around to it 👍

Stephen

As for yesterdays question, I missed the point when the question said "Captain Cook" He only captained one vessel and I got it wrong.

I went for Endeavour.
So this also makes Wikipedia wrong.
I had thought that Cook went on the Endeavour from history at school.
I have just Googled it and this is Wikipedia's answer.
"The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771"
So is the south Pacific Ocean Not the same Ocean?? surely it's all one Ocean 🤔

You are right Nickthesteam, so was I. It was Endeavor

Fat thumbs! Went for Endeavour and hit Resolution instead....

Morning all why does everyone knock the question of the day it's a bit of fun that gets you all talking, I bet the guy who does questions must get cheesed of no thanks just moaning🤣🤣🤣.
I have leant a lot buy of you lot and question of the day 😎.
Let's have bit of good cheer👍

Caught me out on that one. 😂😂

Struggling this week. Mightily! 🤔😜😮

I’m with Austin on that. My knowledge of Captain Cook is limited, but I had heard of the Endeavor, so that’s the one I chose.

The Endeavour was first used. Question only partially correct.

I am total agreement with Chum444. The question did not specify which voyage, so there were two correct answers. 😝

Think I will pass on future participation.To the rest of the players, good luck with the quizzes.☀️
By the way, no disrespect toward the author(s) of the questions. The person(s) has/have a pretty much thankless task.

En Munich
I had the Same wat of thinking weich was fault 😩😩😩😩😩

Had the red and the blue transposed in my mind; i.e. blue square in the centre of a red frame!
Seems the correct response to the described flag would be to 'Render medical assistance' and call the Coastguard for a doctor.
Flag in the pic (W - Whiskey) flown alone signifies 'Require Medical Assistance', as shown in the table Mike posted. So nowt to do with diving!?🙄
One lives and learns😉
😎
PS Designer of the W flag musta bin Irish, a Bushmills fan perhaps?😋

Whiskey, Echo, Lima, Lima / Delta, Oscar, November, Echo / Mike, India, Kilo, Echo. 😉
BRAVO ZULU👍

😁😎

Here is the answer, see for yourself which letters they are!
Best wishes . . .
Michel-C.
👍😂😂😂😂 😇

My question to you all:
Who can understand that? Morse code with flags . . . .
Solution follows
my 🎁 to you . . 😁
PS: Quality of the images corresponds to the searched word . . 😁

Hi Doug that is the answer I gave, more in hope than anything else. Afterwards I checked on the Internet and that did not help either.
Roy

Welcome aboard TD👍

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I'm with you on this Doug. 🤣

Hmm!
Another deja vu 🙄
I recall we already had this debate about a year ago.
Stephen did warn us, when he made changes to the question selection, that we may see some repeats.
Can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday but a year ago ...
IMHO the correct answer here would be 'A'. The flag described does not appear to exist.
Doug😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diver_down_flag

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=590880697&q=Divers+in+the+water+flag+Navy&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLocGq9o6DAxUkgf0HHdFYCI8Q1QJ6BAhwEAE&biw=1888&bih=908&dpr=1.02

Nickthestream got it right.
Just another question with an inapplicable answer!

Had it, then changed my mind. Dammit!

Now I have clicked on what I thought was the answer I am even more confused.😂

Once again I am confused as the description covers two flags both with different meanings. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick again. I am after all a Simple Sailor 😀

The correct answer is missing
>>> I need a doctor
I actually need that now 🙈🙉🙊
M-C
PS:enough is enough . .I'll take a break and do some handicrafts instead

I agree Nickthe steam - UK dive flag is white with a blue square in the middle. I thought that these days there were international standards for signal flags - have these changed?

In the Hungarian language there are 44 letters or combinations of two letters that give a distinct sound. Some letters, like A either is written as a or á. Each one has a different sound. O has three. This would clarify the sound on bow as, for example only, bow or böw giving the o different sounds. Makes reading words a little easier because you know how each letter sounds as you read it.😃

In the UK I thought it was the alpha flag (blue/white). In the US Canada and some European countries it is a red flag with a white diagonal stripe...

Lucky guess. Had no idea
Rick

Hey Luckyduck!
For us, it's the officials under the motto:
The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing!!!
Good Night, Michel-C.
😂😂😂😂😂
Ps: Fortunately : I love you is still easy to understand . . Otherwise I would have problems with my wife . . 😇😇😇

Hi Boatshed -I don't think English is the only language at fault here - there are examples throughout world languages, but because English is so common, it is the first to be picked on, and that does not include any of the dialects, especially those from Glasgow - no offence to any Glaswegians, but some of the locals even have diffidulty understanding each other.

HI luckyduck, that's another one of those English words "BOW" that has two different meanings. This is why Mike Stoney from Switzerland also doesn't understand our English Language. It's so confusing, we can say the same sentence with a different tone of voice and it will mean something completely different. I used to work with a couple of Greek Ciprite's and I tried to explain this to them as it could sound veery offensive but I just couldn't get them to understand it.

I thought crossing the bow was when you put an arrow onto the string before pulling back - or is that the wrong bow? Poor folks who don't have English as their first language must wonder what planet we are on when one word has such vastly different meanings!!

I'm wondering about the validity, and accuracy of some of these "trick" questions and answers. I noticed the majority of us answered "D" which seems the most diffinitive answer relating to this question.

It is obvious that causing a right of way to be impaired can result in a boat collision. However just crossing someone's bow may or may not depending on the distance and other factors.👎

'Bug' nicht Bogen Mike😉
Einen Bogen kann nur über-gespannt werden, nicht wahr?😁

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Well got todays one wrong, had a boat on the Norfolk Broads for 25 years and was using hire boats also since I was 15 and now 73. I went for answer "D" what a NUMPTY. Still there you go 🤣🤣.

I admit.. I guessed this one...🤔

Crossing the bow ??? Den Bogen überqueren . . Hä?
Now I don't understand your language any more.
😵‍💫🙈😜😝

Made an obvious but lucky decision…

no comments . . .

Anwser is wrong. Cpt Cook was using it to map Australia.

Hi SimpleSailor, Does that mean you can ask Alexa the answer to these questions? To be Honest the main thing I ask her is to play Gold radio, what is the temperature outside and what is the time if I cannot see the clock from where I'm sitting. Or maybe to play some specific music. I didn't even think of that, to me that would be cheating, if I don't know then it's a lucky guess or get it wrong.

Great grab Simple Sailor!!!

Although I got it wrong. It looks like Cpt. James Cook used Harrison's chronometer in 1779 and Darwin's trip was in 1831. I think Alexa has it wrong 🤣

On the subject of the boxartden and their wonderful site…https://www.boxartden.com/gallery/index.php/Boxart-Collection

In was lucky on that one. I only went for it as Charles Darwin was on that ship as I could also recall from some history lesson in school, not that I listened to too much at school. But I am not too good on much history. I wish I had learnt more at school. If my dear old dad was still with us (R.I.P pop) I would ask him these sort of things, he was a navy man. He was a Chief Stoker in the Navy, hard work so I believe to keep a ship going in the Second World War. I used to rib him saying he must have been on the building crew of the HMS Mary Rose.😂