Hi, Ed, about the Admiral question, 👍 I came to the same conclusion as you. I knew that they wouldn't name HMS Hood after a disgraced Admiral, and Admiral Hawke was given the title of " Baron Hawke of Towton " and he lived for a time at Scarthingwell Hall- about half an hour or so, away from my home.
So it left only two to pick from !!
Luckily I ruled out Admiral George Hanson and so-- Admiral John Byng was put in front of a firing squad and for "pour encourager les autres" (to encourage the others) ---he was shot.👎😟....

Thanks EDW for the question on the 17th. I might have missed it as it doesn't ring a bell, but I do know what a "Throat Halyard" is used for on a gaff rig. I would have gone for B

I did not know yesterdays answer but knew that Hood, Anson and Hawke had famous naval careers, the only one I did not know of was Byng so I picked him🤔

The 17th question

On a traditional gaff-rigged sailing vessel, which of the following best describes the specific function of the throat halyard in relation to the gaff and sail hoisting process?

A. It tensions the foot of the mainsail along the boom.4%

B. It raises the forward (inner) end of the gaff to set the head of the sail.

C. It controls the angle of the boom to the centreline of the vessel.0%

D. It adjusts the leech tension of the topsail.0%

Hi SimpleSailor, I'm writing because no one has replied to you.
I'm sorry you haven't gotten a response yet.
I can't answer you because I can't see questions from previous days either, only the current one.

Hi. Can someone tell me what the question was on the 17th ? I was moving house that day and got up at 5:30 am to check my emails and do the daily, which I am sure I got right. However the question master says I didn't answer it.

I think this question was very easy for the English, or at least for those familiar with their country's naval history.
I had read about this particular episode in two contexts.
One was during the Seven Years' War, and another (I've attached some images, including the one referring to Bing) regarding discipline aboard 18th-century ships, particularly British ships.
It may seem strange, but it was indeed true, and it's one of the articles in the larger section dedicated to life at sea.
I believe they were extremely severe with Bing.
In other cases, both older and more recent, this wasn't the case.

Lets face it... Nobody knows everything. You must get questions wrong occasionally!!

Yes, repetition is now physiological.
Let's look at it this way: new questions serve as a lesson, while repeated questions serve as a review.

As I previously said, “we will keep asking the same questions till everyone gets them right”
🤣

I think that we are back to the "Answer is in the question " 😊.
And besides that this Polynesian question came up a few months ago so it was easier to remember without even having to think about it 🤔😀..

Thanks Ed, spot on. The Bongo drive has a monoperm super motor already mounted.
I would just like to find another one to make a tug or the like for mydelf.
Roy

Roy, Schottel Drive ?

Hi LewZ, I once gave a talk on model boat propulsion to our club. There are several options but VSP is the most expensive and also not easy to set up for the response you want from the Tx.

I have a Graupner 'Bongo' unit which looks like an outboard but screws down through the hull at the stern. This has a drive similar to an outboard and rotates about 40 degrees either side of neutral within a 'Kort' nozzle, it has a name I can't remember now but no rudder is needed.

If anyone has one for sale please let me know!

I do not know what the losses are with the complex movement of the VSP but the ability to move anywhere must be the over riding criteria. It works well in model form as well.

I think I read somewhere that the Azimuth propulsion units have been modelled. They are very popular in full size cruise ships.

Many years ago we (the family) hired a narrow boat for a canal boat holiday in the UK. Our boat, really a scow, had a converted car engine (Morris Minor 800cc) to run on gas. The engine was mounted at the stern pointing forward and it was a Z drive (through 2 u/j's) to the prop.
It worked as smooth as anything and seemed economical as well.

regards
Roy

Hi EdW, yes, indeed, after breathing helium you have a grotesque voice with a strange high-pitched tone.
Do you remember Buck and the others in the cartoon Ice Age?
I remember when we used to playfully inhale helium from inflatable balloons. We had ridiculous voices.

Hi EdW, if you can 3D print the design you posted, I'd really appreciate it.
As soon as you start working on it, I'll be happy to follow your lead.

As I mentioned I have been on tugs with VSP on numerous occasions.
The time that really impressed me was moving away from the dock sideways and then turning around by spinning 180 degrees without moving forward or backward, then transitioning to forward.

Fortunately I have used CCR gear. You sound funny for a while after inhaling He.
Case of he he he 🤣

This was very easy for anyone who dives or has dived.
There wasn't even any need for translation; a few words like 100 meters were enough.
Plus, the question was only one of two options.

I took a stab at the VSP question without looking it up on the internet and lost. I am amazed on how many get these question right. Congrats to those who knew all the answers (100%) without having to look the answer up.

As for the effectiveness of having a model boat (on our pond and probably other ponds), I think that it would be a nightmare with vegetation. We occasionly have problems with conventional propellers fouling. Pools like on SubWaterFilm would do just fine.

Lew

This is what you need to 3d print.
🤔

Hi Steve, I think it's not impossible.
Very difficult, but doable.
As long as the scale isn't too small.
I also think many parts should be metal.
I don't have much faith in the durability and wear and tear of 3D printing materials.
The design is also doable, but certainly not easy.
If it's sold for £300, I suppose there's probably some quality to that part (including the materials used). Personally, it's not a device that excites me; I prefer traditional propellers.
I also have a lot of pending work and various electronic tests that I've neglected so much that I can't remember why I bought those individual components.
However, I'll be following with great interest anyone, like EdW, who has expressed interest in this type of propulsion system and who has the technical expertise to build it.

Hi, Ed & Alessandro, what about 3d printing one or two . 🤔. If someone who is good with cad software can design all the necessary parts, then it would be reasonably easy to put one together 😊.
There are some very clever guys on this forum.
I believe that they run at quite a slow rpm, 800rpm 🤔 ??
I still haven't seen my friend about this project yet.

Yes Edw, £300 is really a lot for our hobby.

Model VSPs are available but at nearly £300 they are a bit pricy.
I have looked at making one but without a 3axis CNC mill this would prove nigh on impossible.

Sorry, having looked up this type of propulsion system on YouTube I now know that this isn't the one on the rescue boat at the York Model Boat Club. 😐😣.
But a friend of mine loves a challenge, so I will ask him if he can design a model version.
Printing the bevel gears and the Aerofoil "propellers" should not be too much of a problem for him 🙂
If he does, then I would have to build a tugboat to fit it in !! 😦.

Been on a tug with this type of propulsion a couple of times. The maneuverability and controll is quite surprising.
Most of the harbour tugs in South Africa use this.

One of the guys down at the York Model Boat Club has a small boat with this type of propulsion system.
It rotates round 360 degrees and he launches it to nudge any boats or yachts that have become stuck in the shallow water, 😊 before we have to get the full size rescue boat out.😐☺.
So now I will have to let him know that he has helped me to get the Qotd correct 😊😊.

I agree knowing the functions of each of the ships mentioned there was only one choice.
Roy

My logic was the same as Steve’s, wonder if it was a case of great minds or fools.
🤣

I can remember vaguely an American ship being attacked by terrorists and having a great big hole in it's side.
I knew it wasn't a sub or a carrier so really that only left the destroyer 😊.
I also ruled out the Assault ship as I wouldn't expect the USA to be putting troops on the ground?? 🤔.

Unlike other questions, I didn't even have to translate this one.
A while ago, I asked what type of sail we Italians call a "randa." I'd read that in that position it was a "driver" or "spanker" sail; I didn't think it was a "main sail," as many other forum friends claimed.
In the end, I got the right answer from Jumpugly.
All this before Pat signed up, but then Pat clarified and explained everything thoroughly.

Hi, Phil, I was going to put something like that, but I thought if anyone had got it wrong, they would have called us " clever big headed ******s".🙄, so I 😞😟😔...didn't----but I nearly did!!! 😊😁.

I thought that one was fairly obvious but this ai can be sneaky 🤔 so you have to watch out.
Philuk👍

Hi Pat, as I posted yesterday, I tried Google after I had answered the question. All I got was a vast amount of useless information. It would have taken a lot of time to sift through to find the answer if it was there and if it was correct. I don’t have the time to do this as I have other things to do. Over the last 30 plus days I have been lucky enough to know the answers, before that I had a few that I guessed and was wrong. A few months back I was lucky to get 40% correct, the questions were not in the scope of my brain
🤔

Hi Pat, most of us taking part in the general conversation are 70+ still active and probably had a career which we chose and liked. Most of us had many years of this and climbed a short way up the ladder of success.

So here we are, brains in working order still involved and keeping engaged if not always active. I read of a well known author and speaker who refered to those like him and us, as 'Extreme Adults'.

So we are the savvy ones! We are a self selected group not a cross section of society. We are not sitting watching TV we are still involved with society probably with many friends etc.

I still lead and teach a Bridge group at 87 and interesting it is too. So with a good brain many interests and memories we are bring knowledge and odd items of interest we have seen or read about.

Not a lot to be gained on TV these days and you should see what the Ozzies have to put up with!

So Pat, we are going to be able to answer more questions than the average guy, argue about them and criticize them.

I rest my case!
Roy

With all the diversity of the questions I still find it hard to believe that anyone can know all the answers let alone consistanly get 100% all the time - perhaps the group should be renamed from QoD to who can use a search engine the best 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Wow never been this hi before I think I must being edumincated by all this quizering makes my brain hurt.
Philuk👍

This one is for Pat 🤣

I decided to use Google to find the answer to today's question, which I have already answered. I got page after page of facts that have no bearing on the possible answers

Total information overload, I don't have the time to use Google to find the answers to QOD.

🤣

I remember watching a documentary on transfer of organisms in ballast water a year or so back, mainly to do with dredging the Thames estuary.
Interesting.
Roy

How I know about the design on a gondola is research I have done in the past.
This is from my archives.
The article is in Italian, which in spite of family ties, I don't speak but the drawing is obvious.

The only reason I know the answer to this is a member of our club works for a company that designs and builds this equipment and he gave a talk at a club meeting on water purification.

Certification for a master foreign going certificate is done by examination and the pass mark on R of the R is 100%

Certainly becoming harder to deduce the correct answer from multiple choice answers

No sure you average ships officer needs to know all this information either but then again my background is not in merchant ships

The only way that I could answer the Colreg question was to download the 62 page COLREG manual and look it up.😔☹️. I can now safely sail a ship or boat, except that I cannot swim 😔☹️🙄.😀.

Quite an interesting question, I think Ai is changing it's ideas of not letting us get a clue from the answers😠. Have I cheated !!????
I think that the captain of a ship would probably have a copy of the Colregs document on his ship ??🤔.

Rules is rules he he 😁
Philuk👍

I must confess to researching answers, but not fron Gurgle. I have several books dealing with nautical matters, for example, the 1956 edition of The Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, several RYA training manuals, Advanced Powerboat, Yachtmaster etc so I use books only when I have to. I still get stuff wrong and have never got to first place, second place for about 3 days is the highest I've been.

Why are they stupid and the answer options rediculous ? - either you know the answer or you dont simples.

I still dont understand how these people can get 100% all the time its just not natural, for an example for someone thats used to driving a frigate about why would they know anything about the construction of a gondola.

Whats the point in taking part if you look up the answer before answering the question.

That is the most stupid question ever. I looked it up!
Roy

Ridiculous set of options for an answer. I can usually work out the correct option, but just a list of numbers is impossible. All that’s left is guesswork, no idea at all what the options refer to.