What book explains the symbols on a NOAA chart?
Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner, who will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat, will be selected at random from the correct answers.
Thanks to last week’s Mindbender winners, Dan and Mel Wahrer, for their correct answer: bobstay.
Lots of respondents said martingale or dolphin striker. As pictured below left, a dolphin striker is the spar and the martingale is the wire. A bobstay, right, has no dolphin striker.
