What is the process that watermakers or desalinators use to turn salt water into fresh water?
Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. The winner, selected randomly from correct answers, will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat.
The winner of last week’s Mindbender is Ron Sherwin of Napa, CA who correctly identifies a “king spoke” as the vertical spoke on a ship’s wheel when the rudder is centered In the old days, someone would mark the king spoke with a turk’s head, but, nowadays, virtually no one knows how to tie a turk’s head. Most of us mark the king spoke on stainless wheels with black tape. It works, but something seems lost.
