Ed, I think Bligh was attached to his sextant and not the chrono? But, yes worth investigation.

Got that one as I sent the old Revell box top art by the great John Steel to the boxartden for restoration and their permanent archives not too long ago. 😉

Why did Captain Bligh go to the lengths he did to retain his chronometer and that was well before the HMS Beagle
I think this needs to be checked.

She was launched in 1797 and is still a commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. That Joshua Humphries, he knew how to build 'em

Like Doug said think I knew the answer as we have had the question before. Still it gives us a talking point and you can learn a lot on the side!

As my memories fades so does my score!
Roy

I thought Josiah Fox drafted this ship and Humphreys argued for copper sheathing, but I am getting old, and basically a landlubber to boot !
Love the site, keep it up.😊

A lucky guess from me I had no idea slow bringing the numbers back up I had bad run for a while 👍
Phil

Lucky guess for me on that one today. 😁

Saw her in dry dock on her last major refit and resto… mid ‘80’s if memory serves. Marines on duty were the park rangers and museum guides. Tough to find so much white and live oak in one place. 😉 21 inches thick. Amazing to see.

Old Ironsides!! You know, it kinda shames me that I didn’t know she’s still commissioned.

Deja vu??

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I got lucky as well Doogle. A lottery ticket purchase may be in order for both of us today. 😉

Lucky, guess, correctly 😁. I'm learning more about sailing ⛵️ each day 😀

Hi commodore-H yes it could be a fathomometer but if you thought in fathoms you probably had a knotted rope to measure them with.😊

My son proceeds down the channel, it takes 30 minutes through shifting and twisting sand bars to the sea with centimeters to spare. Often just 10 cms. of clear water under the keel.

An exact measurement is needed for that.

REgards
Roy

It could also be a fathometer

I thought Sounders were used when it was foggy! 😂

Hence the expression for 'skivers' of Swinging the lead!
My son calls his depth measurer a 'Sounder'. Good enough for me.
Roy

A depth finder I think is the correct answer here..🙄..

Good Morning „Modellbauer“!
Modern technology!
In pirate times, they were ropes with knots and a weight. The person who was allowed to measure gave the depths. He better not have had too much to drink the night before!
Well, that was a long time ago. .
Cool, that time . . No hustle and bustle and mobile phone addicts like today .
Shit, my coffee is empty
Michel-C.

Modern torpedoes are also designed to attack just about everything on land and sea..and air for that matter. In many cases modern subs don't even have to leave port to do so. Frankly, it's terrifying what modern subs can do.

No brainer this morning - unless after sinking them you try to salvage anything useful 😂😂

Alessandro, you are correct, otherwise-
"Errare humanum est, sed in errare perseverare diabolicum."
A maxim meaning that to make mistakes is a common (and by implication forgivable) human attribute, but to persist in making the same mistake is a personal or moral flaw (and by implication less forgivable).
Can this also be applied to AI?
Don't be too hard on Stephen, suus non sua culpa, it's the AI's fault!

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"Errare humanun est".
But the error must be corrected.

Maybe I take it too seriously, after all it's a game.
But I thought that we should try to find the exact answer and not make random choices.
The game is instructive and you can always learn something, as long as there is greater rigor in seeking exact answers.

If I can make a suggestion, I would do this:
I would start from an absolutely exact statement, taken from one or more encyclodedic texts (in the United Kingdom there is certainly no shortage of authoritative and reliable publishers) and I would build the question from there.
Furthermore, if the error occurred I would immediately rush to correct it to avoid making bad disclosure.

This time the topic was very interesting and I liked it a lot, in fact it is very relevant to the topics covered in this forum.

Too bad because I was liking this game.

I too chose running. At least I was in the majority! A multitude of online sites with Q&A relating to many things including nautical interests. Perhaps drawing from them would be less questionable.

I too went for run...

'fraid not DG☹️
Only the 'good things' come in 3s.
Bad things seem to have no limit at the moment.
Or was it always so?

Not only this question is questionable but the alleged correct answer is highly so!
Close reach ~= Close hauled; i.e. the wind is off the bow, P or S.
The AI Stephen is using was obviously never a sailor.🤔
I (like the majority) plumped for Running, as being the only option where the wind is off the stern.
Hey ho!
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PS On this basis I don't think I want any form of AI trying to run my house!💥🔥❄️🙈

I agree totally with Alessandro and I used to race sailing dinghies.

We still haven't sorted the highest point on a ship and now this one.. Will these come in 3's I wonder?? 😂😂

You are absolutely right AlessandroSPQR, another questionable question.

I am playing this game like golf. The lowest average wins. Sounds good to me.🤣

Good morning everyone.

Sorry, I haven't read the other posts yet because they were blacked out before.

In my opinion the answer is absolutely wrong.

This is my opinion but I invite everyone to consult sailing books (from the cheapest to the most expensive) to verify what I say.

Initially I thought I had made a mistake due to a wrong translation, but this is not the case.

If the wind comes from behind the only correct answers can only be:

Broad reach (in Italian "lasco") which is the best and most efficient pace.

Running (in Italian "da poppa").

It is absolutely not close hauled or close reach, because in that case the wind comes from the front.

The beam reach comes from the side.

And I always thought the ultimate answer to everything was 4. No wonder the wife argues with me all of the time.😬

I agree, Stephen is only human just like the rest of us. Keep the questions coming!

“Poor Stephen gets clobbered almost everyday, trying to meet so many of us calling his answers into question”.

I had not considered it from this perspective. No more complaints from me

Hi Rowen if you look at the number posts / members who post then this is the most popular thread.
Regards
Roy

Seems to be another 'None of the above' today🙄

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It is fun and interesting answering these questions and thanks for doing it. But once again I have to call into question the supposed correct answer. I have done dingy sailing for some time and the supposed correct answer is not what I would have called it. In fact what I think is the answer is not in the options. ⛵ Sad to see my average go down ☹️

Lost it on "slightly." Too early for me to focus I guess. 😆

Seems like a lifetime of sailing has not helped me - 'slightly' behind is not clear - behind what? the stern, or more than 90 degrees aft? 90 degrees aft is a beam reach, between close hauled and 90 is a close reach. Running is fully astern. Poor Stephen gets clobbered almost everyday, trying to meet so many of us calling his answers into question, but then it keeps our minds and poor brains good at typing our comments😁

It is a beam reach, so got it wrong!
The idea of a quiz was quite entertaining,but as the questions and answers are unrelated think it has lived it’s time.
Suggest close it down whilst still ahead

R N, as I recall it was Jinx the cat from Pixie and Dixie that "hates meeces to pieces"...

I carnt agree a tall that Inglish is stoopid. The langwidge has been added 2 as our conkerers have cum and gon or stayed. In 1066 frenj Bill landed at astings as is mates ad told im he was the riteful king. He stayed and liked wot essaw. e bilt a few peers rownd the coste for the lads. If franz woz that gud e cud av gorn home arfter but i spec he woz fed up wiv snales 4 brekfst.
E never whent bak so it mus tave been beta ear than frarns. Moast invadurs r fed up with thair one cuntry nd they sta.

So wot langwidge do tha speek? Thay bring there oan and plonk it on top of the nativs 1.

Wee av all thers and our bits 2 and we hav a com plex 1 lik the bloak sin iglus av wiv 50 wurds 4 sno.

It seeems the wiffy fav vors Inglish so liv with it ore go and invad some wear.

I did knot get speshul treetmnt wen the boms were forling lik wot the covid skolars dun. we ad 2 liv wiv it

anon, but I am 85 !/2 !

Hi Boatshed!
This is similar in the German language, it depends on the emphasis or a comma
is missing ( , ) 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Example:
We eat, grandpa
or
we eat grandpa ! 🫢🫢🫢
Nice day all, Michel-C

Ps: I love humour and life, as well as health . . . the important things in old age.
Crafting is part of it here!!! 😊😊😊

Hi MIKE STONEY, I am 73 and a half and to me our English language half the time doesn't make sense to me.we have words that have are spelt the same for two different things and you can say some thing and with our tone of voice could mean something completely different.
It it a stupid language. So how can a foreign person learn it if we cannot completely understand some of it's meaning's. For an example, you take your dog for a walk on it's LEAD. or. I use LEAD weights when I go fishing. I put it down to the KING's stupid ENGLISH Language.

I just took a lucky stab at it and got it wrong🤣. Then I Googled it just out of curiosity t o see what that came up at and it said BROAD REACH🤔, but I am not into sailing anyway so I wouldn't know which is now right. To me this is just a bit of fun. All I know is give way to sail on the river⛵ as I did own a small cabin cruiser on the Norfolk Broard's for 25 years and a small outboard powered boat🚤 trailered for 15 years, great fun that was🤣😂.

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When the wind comes from behind, we say: it's on. . >>running
Tztztztz the English language is a book with 7 seals!
. . . . . especially your sailor language.
😏😏 Michel-C
Ps: Guys, don't let it get you down, let's keep tinkering!

Points of sail

These are generally the ones that most sailors use. The close reach is forward of the beam not behibd it.
Roy

Really? I can’t agree with any of them 🤔

Guessed lucky-NOT, never been actually sailing ⛵️ and not enough time to play and learn with the DF65 😂

Absolutely Roy👍
Make sure you keep your towel handy.
Reckon we're all gonna need one the way things are going😉
Tom (from Tom and Jerry) got it dead right all those years ago:
"I HATE MIECES TO PIECES!"😁

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