Shucks, I narrowed it down to two.
Then chose the wrong one🙄
DOUBLE POOK🐱🐱

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Likewise Roy!!

I got my clockwise and anti-clockwise muddled up. Never knew what time it was either!
Roy

Well I got that wrong. It's a long time since I did any dingy sailing but I thought I knew the answer. I always followed the wind shift. Maybe it is different in a larger boat. No idea. 😂🤣⛵👎

I have come on here today and it has told me that I have all ready answered the question. This is all wrong. I DONT KNOW WHY THIS DOES THIS. This isn't the first time this has happened to me. Some ting should be done about this happening. I know it happens to others.
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Not just yacht racing - it is even more important in dinghy racing, when wind shifts have more effect than tides. In offshore yacht racing this tactic has to be considered with other factors such as tides, which often have a greater effect.

Fortunately I have done some serious yacht racing 🤣

Steve, “Fighting lights” were two coloured lights, one above the other, suspended from a cross tree on the mast.
These provided a code to identify as friendly. The code changed every four hours.

I would agree with that - even for professional sea farers or officers of a Sail Training Ship

This is a question for serious yacht racing fraternity, a bit over the top for mere modellers.
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You're right, Steve. We Teredo Navalis modelers don't care, unless you leave your model in the sea for days on end.
Very unlikely for us, hahaha.

No, that's fine; the forum should be a place for fun and learning, in my opinion.

However, I've seen scale ship models (static display models) covered in copper plates because they wanted to faithfully reproduce the original.

Ok; Alessandro, I will certainly remember the bad old Teredo Navalis the next time that I build a model boat with marine birch plywood.😀
But I will not be covering it with copper sheeting.😊
I think that I should be quite safe as I only sail my boats in a landlocked lake 😐☺.
Do you think that I should be taking the forum much more seriously???🤔. I have learned a lot since joining when I asked if anyone could help with the use of the operation of "fighting lights" on my HDML.

The "Teredo Navalis" is more infamous than famous.
In Italy, it's simply called "Teredine."
It's been well known since ancient times.
As Luckyduck rightly said, it was a major problem for wooden-hulled ships.
I love bivalve mollusks (especially because they're delicious to eat, like cephalopod mollusks), but Teredo Navalis have always disgusted and repelled me.

You're right, Steve, it's true, I had an advantage because the scientific name is closer to Italian than English.
However (being a fan of animals and taxonomy), I always identify animals by their scientific name.
It's represented by the binomial Linmeus (father of taxonomy).
The scientific name is valid and unique everywhere in the world. You can't go wrong if you use it.
If I see a blue shark (verdesca) I will say "Prionace Glauca" to make sure there are no misunderstandings.

Hi Pat.

Don't leave the Model Boats Forum. There are only about 2% of the 1,858 members doing the QOD on a regular basis, so it's not an important part of the Forum.

My sentiments exactly - to me the enjyable part of the board was learning things you did not know but I dont think some people take it seriously(they are only interested in seeing their name at the top of the ladder) - some openly admit why remember things - will be interesting to see how they get on when we have a massive cyber attack or a massive EMP pulse

Oh Pat! I have 4 wrong answers and one was a 'you have already answered the question' NOT. So I am banging around in the 80s.

I think that although it would be easy to cheat, why bother? I went for Teredo but thought it was a worm apparently it is a clam! So learned something there.

I was in IT and came across some very clever and widely read people. As one guy described himself "A mine of useless information" I know some must take it as a challenge as from a previous post to 'fix it', when there was a' you have already answered the question' response.

Out of boredom and not ready for bed I was listening to some 'revenge / hard done by stories on you tube. They are put together by A.I. and so riddled with errors, assumptions, lack of continuity and stupid situations that maybe the future is bright for us humans after all.

I work on the assumption that between us we know everything! It's like if asked about our son and myself. I say I taught him everything he knows, but not everything I know.

Don't give up Pat! Just a bit of fun.
Roy

Pat,
Re "It is statistically proven that ..."
BUT: There are lies, damn lies ... and statistics.

I never trust any statistic that I haven't falsified myself😁

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WOW I only knew that one from the 30 years of owning a boat.
Luckily I only had a fibre glass one.
I has a plaque on my Shetland 535 that said,
"If boat where meant to be built from fibreglass then GOD would have made trees from fibreglass".
I cannot BELIEVE that I have finally got up to 100%.
I will drop soon I know it.

That was a relatively easy process of elimination. I'm sure I've got Toredo worm in my left hip!

The toredo worm was the reason that so many wooden hullsed ships had copper plates added below the water line, added to the weight of the ship, but extended its life enormously. A toredo worm infestation could cripple a wooden ship within a year of being in the water.

I am mystified about the rules Pat refers to, where can I find them?
As I am high on the leader board, I am obviously cheating.🤔

I guessed this answer based on the same reasons as SimpleSailor. I thought they were looking for Naval Ship Worm and that gave me the best guess coming from an IT background as well

My answer today was an educated guess.

Well I managed to guess this one correctly today. Only because of my IT back ground. I had come across the word Teredo as used in the phrase "Teredo tunnelling" so putting two and two together with Navalis which looks like Navy I guessed correctly.

What is becoming more and more obvious to me this is not a test of people’s knowledge but a test of who cheats

With that in mind I have cancelled my subscription and will be closing my account at the end of the month

While I enjoyed the challenge of the question of the day - what is the point of the board ladder if all competitors do not follow the same rules, if you cheat it’s not about your nautical knowledge it about your ability to surf the net

Good luck to all those who continue

It is statistically proven that anyone has a 70% chance of passing an exam with multiple choice questions without any knowledge of the subject

There I see giving multiple choice is not a fair way of accessing someone’s knowledge

With this in mind I have cancelled my subscription and will be closing my account at the end of the month

Good luck to all those that continue

Ho bug**r, I see what you mean now with navalis, Doug,
😮 I should have gone for that but the only latin names I have come across have always had the same name twice as in Vulpes vulpes for fox and Meles meles for badger so I just went for the one with two names😆😆..
I couldn,t remember that question so it must have been before I got involved with this ☹️😭😭.

Didn't navalis give you a clue Steve?😉
Besides which we had this once before, quite a while ago I think.

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Didn't have a clue 🙄 without cheating. So I didn't.😔😔. No good with latin names probably easier for Alessandro 😁😁.

Q 20.08.25
POOK🐱
The 30 day odyssey starts all over again😠

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I agree with you all the way.😁
Not like Pat's questions when he asks 4 or 5 parts to one question with no possible answers given 🤔🤔🤔, it's the steady elimination of these that makes it a little bit easier to answer . Far Far Far tooooo hard for me to have a go at Pat's , I would embarrass my self 😣🤤😢.

Without answer options I would not have a clue, but A seemed the most sensible.
Roy

That was a lucky guess today, for once the answer was not in the question - good way to learn

Today’s question was hard. Got it correct but deleted most of the answers. I had two to choose at the end but picked the correct one. Hopefully I am on a roll🤪

Roy, Captains Corageous is on YouTube Tube, it's a couple of quid to rent it for a month or so. Another grand Kipling yarn!

Good luck with your search Steve - we have very few retail shops left that actually sell anything where I live - most have been converted to street bars, nail bars and hair dressers.

Markets and car boot sales would be the best chance of finding anything like that around our way - and a certain amount of luck!

Happy hunting!

Bob.

I don't know, there doing sailing ship questions again??
I know nothing about sailing or sailing ships.
I sat and read the question half a dozen times and was bewildered at first.
But seeing as the answer's the only one that had fore in it, well thatt was the one for me.
So I went for that one.
So to me the answer was in the question if you read it enough times and think 🤔about the four answers listed logically.

Ok, thanks Roy I will make a note of that and have a look for it down at the shops in Castleford that sells nothing but DVD' s and games discs ?? or whatever they call them.🤔

Hi Steve s, If you want to see how they were used and in a good film then watch Spencer Tracy in "Captains Courageous" 1937 he got Best actor award. You can see the whole Grand Banks fishing fleet. I hope it is a National archive as I have never ever seen that many fishing boats and dorys at sea.

The start is a bit boring as it sets up the spoilt little rich boy in school and on a cruise, but get by that and you are in for a treat. There is a very nice model as well!
Roy

Hi everyone 7 brits at the top of the leader board .😁
Philuk👍

If you want some more challenging questions that don’t repeat try Pats QoD !!! Nothing like a bit of self promotion

Many repeats lately - I think AI has reached its limit of intelligence lol

This one took some reading multiple times 🙄🙄, but the part of the question "the unique construction feature of a 'Banks dory' that made it especially suitable for deployment from schooners"
Lead me to go for the answer with the part that had-
"easy stacking and launching from mother ships" in its answer..😊
As somebody has pointed out more than once-
"The Answer is in the Question" 👍I had no idea at all about the description of a Banks Dory only that it was a smallish boat probably with a few sets of oars ?? 🤔🤔.

Nick. I totally agree with you when you posted
"The post question debate is as much fun as the questions themselves!" That's how I got involved in the first place 😉😁.

Seemed familiar 2 me 2 Pat🤔

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Have we not had this question before again ? Is it a case of AI running out of questions lol

I answered the question, and the answer is not recorded. It shows that I have one unanswered question, and it is not allowing me to answer again. My answer is the correct answer.
It looks like there is a bug, and it needs to be fixed.Please fix it.

I'm about 50 minutes late answering the question of the day and I get an email telling me I need to answer the question.I don't want members reminding me about answering it. I like doing the question and getting points, but please stop telling me to answer it. Or I will have to go to my Profile page and fill in the box that stops emails. P.S. I enjoy most of the mail, but not the one that orders me to do the question. Thank you. Have a great evening, as you all know, Canadians need to do the question at 8 PM. I know that I now will be overwhelmed with them tomorrow .

I nearly missed out on this NEW question of the day as I was just looking for any comments on the foghorn one. Then I found a question of the day that I hadn't answered and began to wonder about my sanity 😣🤔.
It was only when I read more comments about the question being changed that I breathed a sigh of relief, wow, thank goodness for that 😀😀😀. I really thought I must be losing my sanity having skipped a whole day- I'll now finish my ranting with a very long sigh of relief.....

I rest my case about AI lol

The post question debate is as much fun as the questions themselves!