You beat me to it! Perhaps it's a special sort of jib for going backwards...

Sorry Mr quiz master but the supposedly 'correct' answer today 17/7 is a load of cobblers awls!😠
Surely a jib sail is in front of a mast not behind.
"A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel." Wiki.
On a sloop, defined as a single masted sailing vessel (Sloops of war not included!), the triangular sail behind the mast IS the mainsail. There is nothing behind that.
Harrumph! We are NOT amused.
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"I have that 45 in my stash."
Aha! So it was YOU who bought it Cash!!😁

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Roy,
Happy Birthday to You, I just hope I am as astute as you are when I reach your age
God Bless👍👍👍
Trev

They must be awful 'long in the tooth' by now Flaxby😁

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Happy Birthday Trev 🎂🎊🎉. Hopefully this election year will be better!??!! It's a damn shame how out leaders act nowadays. RR

My origins are near to Lowestoft.
There's people there still talk about the battle ! 😉

In advance Roy, Happy Birthday for the 21st in case I forget to post. Wishing you all the best, have a great time in "old smokey"as I would call London

Battle of Lowestoft! Pah! It is the battle of the day that counts.

The wind is up, the yachts are charged up and off sailing this morning.
Roy

Hi Pressonregardless, Happy birthday, I have my birthday on Friday 21st. July. I shall be 85 but feel much younger! It is all a state of mind.
Plan ahead and make sure you have a good reason to get up every morning!

I have one mantra, "Never say you are too old to do something". I am trying to get one of my younger generation to accompany me on a Zip wire. I have asked for several years now.

My question is "Who is working through a 'Bucket list'"?

My best one was swimming on the Great Barrier Reef about 6/7 years ago. I have sung along with others "O solo mio" on a gondola going through the canals of Venice.

It is also good to have other facets in your life and hopefully some that keep you fit. I enjoyed ballroom and latin dancing 3 times a week for 25 years. (Ah the ladies, sweet memories).

I used to be a dead shot with a rifle (and a Bren gun) I was in the County team for competition shooting. When I was in the RAF I got 6d (2 1/2.p) a day extra for being a Marksman.

I swam a lot and taught youngsters dinghy sailing and was a registered Lifesaver.
Retired as club Secretary after 3 decades.
Now I 'teach' Bridge one morning a week.

On Friday our daughter is taking me into London to go to the top of Battersee Power station, also a nice lunch and a trip on the River Thames. I hope my knees last out? I ought to be knackered after that!

I have several model boats and yachts still to build.

Life is for living and, you get just one go only!

Happy birthday to all with a birthday this month.
Best regards
Roy

Took a guess of which of the 4 Anglo Dutch wars was first . Guest right...

Trev, I had almost forgotten that song, “They’re Coming to Take Me Away”. I have that 45 in my stash. Anyway, this is for you……😁

Happy birthday Trev.Let us hope that reason prevails around the world.
Rick

God Bless cdnfurball,
I just hope reason prevails!
I am 75 years old today, I cannot understand the levels of depravity that the USA has Sunken, It is not the Country I grew Up In.
Trev

Pressonregardless....
There's going to be a lot of people with you in that room !
North and south of the border.
It's at a point you don't know which tinfoil hat wearing story telling person knows the truth..... just save me a seat 😜

If it was up to Biden We would going back to wind power.
OPPS They are Coming to Take me away HA HA .They are coming to take Me away, HÀ HA .
So If You don't hear from me OOPS They Got Me 😂🤣🤣
I apologize Stephen, It's time to send me my walking papers😴😴
Trev

Bunker fuel - all others are far more expensive.

John

I'm not familiar with the workings of modern container ships and have not heard of bunker fuel before. We live and learn !😉

Philbow.... that took a lot of nerve to mutiny the Admiral.
I have learned to go WITH her advise.
Team work the Admiralty calls it... 😉

Wow Philbow you must be very young. Lost my nerve over that sort of thing years ago. Wives are not called SWMBO for nothing!

Makes me go all shivery just thinking about it!

Lets change the subject.

I thought diesel was a no-no so bunker fuel it was.

Roy

Also known as heavy bunker oil (HBO). It has a tar like consistancy and needs pre heating before use. NATO fuels designation F77 or Navy Heavy Distillate, used as boiler fuel and very large C I engines...

Me to Philbow, we all had coal bunkers in this part of the world.

Well, that was tricky. Assumed bunker fuel referred to coal but obviously not! My wife got it right but I overruled her. She’s now looking very smug. 😠 Every day is an education ….

Schweres Öl? Bunkertreibstoff?
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EN: Heavy Oil? Bunker fuel?

Kann mir jemand auf Deutsch Bunker fuel übersetzen??
Lg Michel-C.
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EN: Can someone translate Bunker fuel in German for me??

Look at it this way shipmates.
ALL the 'correct' answers are right, some just to the wrong questions!🤔🙄

Keep on puzzling folks, we're all learning something along the way.
As Michel Claude or Wolfgang might say 'Man lernt nie aus!'
Doug😎
PS for Fireboat - This time it is German😉

Well suspect answers to doubtful questions has put my % score up to 70%. So do not feel I holding the UK back.

Its that soitary one person with one right answer and never tried again who cannot be beaten!

That's statistics for you!

Roy

Only the distance from the tack to the clew in this case, - there are many measurements.

JB

"I am declining this one as it is meaningless!"
That was my first reaction Roy.

I chose the daft answer and it was accepted as right????

Roy

I am declining this one as it is meaningless! None of these terms measure a distance,
Roy

Answer changed to Foot! 👍

Stephen

I got it wrong either way. Must do better.🤡

Michel C
Men always think they know better!!!
Always listen to the captain. At least they got the feeling they know better

Damn!!
I should have listened to my wife. she would have been right!!!
🙈🙈🥴🥴😡😡
Me horny!!
Michel-Cl

Definitive picture......😂😂😂😂

Oh these questions are driving me mad !
Quite correct Nick. The luff is the leading edge of the sail. The distance back to front is the foot, although strictly speaking the foot is the BOTTOM EDGE of the sail. whilst it has a length or distance that does not define it. 😉

I agree! Another question I supposedly got wrong!😠

wrong answers that are right are destroying my scores!!! I put in foot, which is correct, but fail again. I know this is just for fun, but we need to try and keep it within the real world🤔

I also concur,
Cheers Colin.

Agreed.

Wrong answer......
Distance back to front of a sail is the FOOT.
The LUFF is the Forward or Leading edge of a sail....😀

To all you folks who have been lucky enough to share some 50+ years with the same person....
CHEERS !
I will be 30 years married this fall sometime.... she won't tell me exactly when,

I think it's a test....😜

Well done Hermanke been married a long time myself, same lady as well! No idea how she puts up with me!
Roy

Ditto !😉

51 years together, and still sharing our hobbies.
Can't fault it, but couldn't do without swmbo!!!
Cheers Colin and Caroline.

Lucky you Doogle. It is heartening to hear of these happy events. They do happen, even in my own club, but I never seem to be there when they do !!
Stay lucky 😉

Congratulations you two ❤️, just coming up for 30th anniversary this month and she doesn't mind my boats 😁

I didn’t realise I touched sooooo many hearts. Thank you for all your kind likes

Well done Hermank! Join the club. 52 years and still going strong for us!