I’m with you on that one Doug….”I present to you the Ballistic Missile submarine Red October..”
Might have to reheat some pizza myself….
Cash

Hmm! There are two 'correct' answers to today's question!
I chose the most obvious and of course it was wrong!!😠
What is a ballistic missile for if not land based targets?
Are they not the corner stone of our nuclear deterrent?
Cruise missiles you can drop on anything💥, if you know it's coordinates.
POOK! I need another lasagne🐱
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Boy scouts see me coming I have given up trying not to cross the road. I go with the flow canoe whatever all ships are grey that pass in the night. So canoe gulet what do I know? Was Titanic an answer?
I am going to bed.
Roy

Since when has a canoe been a fishing boat ?

Pete

Hi Colin, I blame my eyesight I read it as canoe and passed it by! I thought Gulet was wrong but saw no others that fit.
I have had a holiday on a gulet in the Adriatic and the cabin was the smallest space possible, my wife and I took it in turns to breathe out!
Roy

I picked answer A today as the real answer wasn't there and accepted as correct.
XAVELHA is the true Madeiran fishing boat.
Cheers Colin.

A little bit difficult to get your head around when the answer is in the question??????????????

"... however improbable..." Rick👍
'Elementary!'😁😎

Sherlock Holmes toss out the pieces that don't fit and what is left is the final answer?
Rick

Exactly Austin,
Shame really, coz anyone who watches Nat Geo docus would know the answer anyway🤔
Cheers, Doug😎

It is a reading and comprehension test. The question provided the answer.

Of course these questions are more difficult than the Eggheads questions.
They have just 3 answers and many an answer is perceived by 'going down the middle'.

We have a possible 4 answers to puzzle through, this needs a re-think. So we must choose and answer what maybe the most frequent answer, regardless of the question. The trick questions have this answer already there i.e. Titanic.

It will all get worse for us as there is now a 3D full size image of Titanic which seems to have been left in a football stadium. Well I am not a great fan of football but I think this may upset more people than most other things do. Like the cost of living and remembering to take yoiur pills.

Roy

If you are not sure I would go for Titanic myself!
Still these tricky questions confirm that when you awake each morning not only are you alive but the world is just as crazy in real life and it was not all a dream.
Roy

I thought it was a trick question and nearly picked Lusitania...

I had to read the question and answers a couple times, to make sure it wasn't some sort of trick question.
In the end, somehow, I managed to select the correct answer!

Actually it was a reading test!

Today's question (18/5).
!!??🙄

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I would say that the captain is a pain in the neck as he could not read the charts or follow he gps system. So hé ‘d worthless. I agree with Germany and grow him overboard and the problem is solved (temporarily) the until somebody is capable and has the knowledge to read the charts

My first thought was - chuck the Cap'n and navigator overboard to lighten the boat 😁😂
Then my engineer's brain took over and I went for D as well.😀
Cheers, Doug😎

My immediate thought was "wipe up all the spilled beer". But since that was not an option, I figured D) was close enough. Lucky me, it was the correct answer! 🤣

Hi Nick d we had to pass two starboard buoys then a long gap and then turn right at the 3rd buoy. We miscounted! We had been there many times before and had grown blase. Our fault but no damage and since then my son has got his Off Shore Yachtmaster qualification and is most diligent now.

Before the Utility boat turned up we were going to launch the dinghy with its outboard and I was to get off, being the crew! Then see if that lightened the boat and with me on the outboard could tow the yacht off the sand. My son getting off as well was not anything we were keen on, but speedy response was the main concern.

We had another mishap when motoring up to the jetty and lost power, tide against us and 15 minutes before being taken under a bridge which was a metre too low for the mast! My son acted so quickly he had the furled spinaker out and we beared off across the stream and he then tacked straight up to the jetty and I was ready with a loop to put over a mooring post and all well. Even I was impressed and as you know fathers take a lot of impressing!

When we got our breath back a swim with gogles revealed a 40 foot neoprene mooring rope had floated off from another boat and wrapped itself around the screw.
No point in waiting, sharp knife and 4 dives down had the rope off. It had melted and stretched into thin strands at point of pressure. The next day I cut the rope into 2 useful pieces and used my whipping talent(!) to contain the ends and melted the strands with a few matches. Doing occasional duty as extra ropes now. We know who the owner was and he has not asked for the rope back!
regards
Roy

I agree Roycv, my first instinct is to go full astern and try and get off. Incase its a falling tide, if you stop and discuss options you could really get stuck, other option is of course to learn to read a chart or actually have one for where your cruising and by taking depth soundings to will alleviate getting stuck, of course if you go blindly about you deserve all you get by putting another crew in possible jepody comming to your rescue.

Don't agree, a couple of years ago we did go aground (talking too much) and reversing the engine slowed the yacht. We did not turn off the engine but put prop into neutral. There could be a problem there if the engine picks up cooling water from underneath (the keel)??? But it was not a problem for us.

We were dead lucky as the only boat on the Brisbane Water that could tow us off was a utility boat doing buoy maintenance and he came by 10 minutes later. We threw the guys a line and they pulled us free and a couple of notes changed hands!

I have found that assessing the problem and talking about it as the tide is ebbing is not going to be much help.

Although we used to have an expression at work, "Do not confuse activity with progress"!
regards
Roy

Don’t panic Mr Mouldbuilder,don’t panic !!!😂😂😂
Good old Dads Army 👍👍

Perhaps the reason for assessment is to reduce the chance of making a decision whilst in a state of panic.
Just imagine if Corporal Jones ran a boat onto a sandbank.

I guess all answers could apply, depending on the circumstances...

I may as well be the first to say it’s another ambiguous set of answers 😆

I doubt assessing the situation will help greatly! Especially if the tide is going out…

Stephen

On my last ship in1972 (RFA Retainer) the swim platform was the aft railings.
On the carrier next to her in the photo it was the flight deck if you were man enough.🤢
Neither was a good plan when under way.
Relax and enjoy a great site chaps.👍😂😂😂

Way back in the days of galleons and such they just made you walk the plank, so I suppose that is a form of swim platform.
Cheers Colin.

I think this is something all ships should have. It is a socially acceptable treatment of crew and passengers alike. The maritime authorities should be issueing guidelines on how to swim from a ship travelling at 20 knots and of course being able to return.
I can see safer options of water skiing and parachute trips being suggested but swimming is much better for exercise and good health.

regards
Roy

I’m still saving up for a boat with a swim platform! One can dream 🤣 although then I’d have to move to a nicer country too… I don’t think a swim platform would be utilised on the River Mersey!

Stephen

Strange ! I haven't got a swim platform at the stern of my TUG ?

Cheers, Pete

Some of us judging by the interaction here take it too seriously and spend hours researching for spurious answers which take up most of their day or night!.

I think this a little unfair as sometimes especially for sailboat questions I have experience on full size and also make and sail model yachts.

For instance my son has a 40 foot Beneteau yacht and the swim platform is as you might expect very low and close to water height so that you can easily go swimming. So not exactly a raised platform!

I wonder where the same platform is on the 2 aircraft carriers we have?

In a not too serious way cheers to all,
Roy

Gents.
The daily question as it stands seems in the main to function correctly even though answers can vary by definition and indeed country.
It is as I said previously a bit of fun and NOT Mastermind or University Challenge or a battle of Witt’s.
Most of us read the question and pop in an answer either correctly or incorrectly.
Some of us judging by the interaction here take it too seriously and spend hours researching for spurious answers which take up most of their day or night!.
I am happy to take part in whatever we do.
It is fun and a head scratching exercise at times after all.
Enjoy the moment!!
Regards
Bill.

Let's see if there is wordle interest first 😊

I may well recycle this thread yes. This thread is already coded up to hide posts within the current day until members have solved the quiz question. It's little effort to change that to when members solve a wordle 👍

Stephen

Hi Fireboat would you be setting up the game actually on this thread? I have been doing the 5 letter words
Roy

To avoid a googled answer, I'll try to describe wordle myself 😁

Every day, everyone worldwide (I think) gets a new word to solve. The same word for everyone. Usually it's 5 characters and you've 5 or 6 chances to get the word.

So you start with any word (usually best to pick one with lots of vowels). You may be super lucky and get it on the first try! Although verrryy unlikely. So then it tells you how many letters in the word you entered is in the solution and how many are in the correct position.

You then get another go... so letters that are in the right place you leave and letters in the wrong place you try to move elsewhere to make a different word. Often with some thought you'll get the word before your number of attempts runs out. No time pressure with it which is nice.

The fact you'll know it'll be a word to do with boats, sailing, shipping, bodies of water, nautical themes, etc will likely make it easier too.

We could keep the country based scoring too which I do think is a little bit of fun.

Stephen

"Maybe answers need verifying but that would rule out that person entering."
Exactly Roy, that's why I'm hesitant about doing it😐
Doug😎

Stephen, our last posts crossed!
Your two suggestions also crossed my mind.
A lower frequency would give more time to double-double-check Q&A.👍
On the other hand reversion to the December quiz would heighten the anticipation, give more time for preparation and restore the novelty and individual competitive elements.

How about taking a consensus?
Cheers, Doug 😎
PS never heard of 'wordle'. Wossat?

Hello Fireboat yes I do wordle usually done in 4 but have had a good run in the 3's. Depends which word you start with.
I do like the question of the day and as most do like to exercise the bits we do know about.
Maybe answers need verifying but that would rule out that person entering.
Regards
Roy

Thanks for your prompt action Stephen👍
Re "powers to edit upcoming questions".
Thanks for the offer - I'll think about it and get back to you.

Cheers, Doug😎

Maybe a question of the week? We can then delete all the iffy questions and keep the better ones.

Throwing ideas out there!

Or do we drop it completely and go back to December's prize-draw only?

We certainly don't want daily chores, much rather something fun for everyone.

Does anyone here play wordle? Throwing more ideas out here, but we could have a nautical themed wordle... I'd enjoy creating that in place of the daily quiz 😊

Stephen

My respects to you Roy for even attempting such a task👍
Maybe a 'one off' quiz is not so bad but I can see a daily quiz becoming like a full time job - after a while a daily chore!
Cheers, Doug😎

I've updated today's question and cleared any answers submitted so far.

Perhaps it's time to make the question of the day less prominent and resign it to this thread only. People can follow or unfollow the thread as they like 😊

Doug, perhaps I give you powers to edit upcoming questions too 😉

Stephen

Hi all they were a bit of fun but I agree they are getting a bit obvious or obscure not to say contaversial. However I do respect the person setting the questions it is not an easy task and sometimes if you go out of your comfort zone there may well be possible misunderstanding.

I have set questions for a quiz a few times and at least one answer is challenged everytime. I do not do it anymore.
regards
Roy

Yes they are a challenge I’ve given up doing them seems waist of time now

Stephen,
You really need to do something about today's question!
No way is a raised platform at the stern of a boat a 'cockpit'!!
Cockpit (WiKi disambiguation)
"Cockpit (sailing), an area below deck near the stern of a naval sailing ship."
"(nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay. [from 17th c.]
(nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. [from 18th c.]"
Doug.
https://swimplatforms.com/

This is getting a bit obscure now, never heard of the yacht and have little to no interest in who owns her and my blind guess was wrong.

Did anyone do my question of the day?

Roy

Took a guess ,as I couldn't see the correct answer and it is wrong. I thought Samuel Tak Lee was the owner????
Oh well never mind, cheers Colin.

Exactement Dave👍
So did I😎