What is a dynaplate and what is it used for on a boat?
Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be drawn from the correct answers and will win a subscription to the digital version of Blue Water Sailing.
Many thanks to all readers who sent in answers to last week’s Mindbender. The winner this week is Sheldon Fontaine, Mission Hills, CA who emailed: “Sailmakers can place reef points almost anywhere they want on a mainsail depending on the client’s needs but as a general rule we will use 12% of the luff as the standard increment — 12, 24 and 36% for three reefs.”
Correction: For last week’s Mindbender answer we goofed and picked the wrong winner. The correct answer for the sound signal used by a sailboat underway in dense fog is, “One long blast followed by two short blasts at two minute intervals.”