We need some questions from the Bible
How many cubits was Noah’s ark ?
What kinda fish ate up Jonah?😀

Bloody hell I seem to be going down not up :-(

What's it have to do with real boats or seamanship come to that

What a question! That have something to do with model boats? That question must have been written by a lawyer.

Certainly seems very difficult to rise any further up the ladder

I think i am just standing still i answer one right go up then come down again🤔
Philuk👍

Seems the nearer you get to the top the harder it is to mover forward !!!

Great got this correct today, hope this keeps going👍

If you put in todays right answer and the last right answer falls off the end then your stats remain the same
Roy

Well go todays right but my stats don't seem to have changed at all :-(

there most be a ghost name on the forum....;
i answered the question with A and then it says you have already answered the question false with B which i didn't????????,
Who is behind 😂😂😂😂😂

Answer A states “row or sail”, sailing requires a rudder so this answer cannot be correct.

Aw shucks BS🤔😭
That's happened to me a couple of times.
I vowed that there would NOT be a third time.
My motto now-
STRIKE - WHILE THE WALLET IS HOT😛😍😉😋🤑🤑
(And the better half in the shoe shop down the street😁)
Commiserations, Doug😎

Well that’s a lucky guess.
Just taking into account that it says a double ended fishing boat that’s why I went for answer A. It seemed to make more sense to me.
I have been out all day in Great Yarmouth.
We are up here in our motorhome for a few days, we just came back from a bus ride into the main town.
Just chilling now for the rest of the day. The weather is great, but toooo hot for me
I found a stall selling wooden models that slot together and I thought I will get the one of the Titanic on the way back. He was closed when we got back there.
I am not happy about it. I really wanted that one.

I like the Norwegian fishing boats and dim and distant past remembered that Faering just means 4 oars. So a rowing boat and that was the only option.
Roy

Pook!🐱☹️
Another sneaky snake😠

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Uhmmm I got this one wrong - so like many I expect I consulted Mr Google - not clear here the answer you gave - but hay ho thats AI for you - its a machine - you cant reason with them

For me this was a hard question as I had to take a bit of time and think about it. Got it correct😊👍

At least with the pink dashes moving left to right you can get an idea of when you might stop oscillating 3% up and down every day 😁. Or is it the blue moving right to left ?

Well got that one wrong

Well I can’t seem to get any further forward - I do wish the questions would stay related to ships and maritime history as well as model boat building

AI is not only taking over the questions, it is now analysing our results to make sure everyone gets a crack at the 100%?????? Can you bribe AI?

Good morning ship modelers. I think Nick and Doug are right, this time we got there by logic. I don't want to speak before time, I'd wait until the end of the day to comment.

Momma, what's one hundred percent?😉😉

Pure logic got me through today.
Must have some Vulcan genes🐱😁

@BOATSHED, Phil & Roy.
This quiz is like Snakes & Ladders.
You spend 30 days struggling up the 100% Ladder,
only to immediately meet a Snake😮 and go slithering back 30 days😠

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PhilH
I seem to be just the same.
I get one right then the next few wrong.
It’s like they know I know nothing about sailing and that other SOLAS or whatever it’s called.
They do it on purpose, they keep a check on what I get wrong I think then slip more in on what I don’t about.

No matter what i do I can't seem to be able to get more that 20 questions right and seems to drop back ever night to 63 % then when I get next one right it goes up to 67% but drops down again.
Philuk👍

Personally I don’t mind the history questions - I find the quite interesting although I have caught a few out as being inaccurate

I do however hate the questions on thing like SOLAS regulations - don’t mind collision avoidance regs

As one wrong answer dropped off the end, another one started on its 30 day journey.
As they say when one door closes another slams you in the face!

Roy

Well I got that one wrong. Although I think there were two correct answers. I just chose the wrong one 😠 "B" is equally correct.

Shiver me timbers! That was an easy one!

What will they think of next? Fighting tactics from over 200 years ago.

The system gets you as abstaining to answer is the same as getting it wrong.
Never mind eh!
Roy

Well it seems I am climbing the list very slowly

Not the terminology I would have used - I would have called it a jamming cleat but by process of elimination it could be nothing else

How can I get back the app on my iPhone. I have lost it. The other day when I tried to login it kept trying to get me to log into PayPal so I deleted it. More than a dozen times it wanted me to log into PayPal.
I want the App back and I cannot find it???🙄🙄

I don’t know anything about sailing, so I got today’s question wrong.
Oh well that’s that, down the the list I go.👎

I have seen the Moths with hydrofoils! How do they do it!

Also paddleboards with foils and an electric drive, weird to see.

Roy

Sailing single handers, such as International Moth, which goes like a bat out of hell, with 70 square feet of mainsail, and weighing barely 70 pounds, the central mainsheet on a traveller had a cam cleat - absolutely vital for taking some of the strain off your arms. The traveller also had cam cleats - so called because they looked like the clams as used on gears - but equally called jam cleats, as they jammed the sheet/halyard.

I learnt to sail on a GP14 then a bloody big GRP boat called an ASC in the Sea Cadets

Re- 4065 I learnt in a Wayfarer on a RYA course down by the coast. One of the best remembered courses ever for me.

I did not sail a lot but got a few invites and other courses, but sailed several different ones and then helped to teach the Sea Scouts near where I live now.

Refence to James Wharram there is a Model Boats plan of one of his catamarans and a couple of months later they had to apologise as the author of the plans had failed to ask permission from Wharram.

Roy

I would suggest 'in grandfathers day', for Traditional.

Vintage for parents childhood and Antique for 100 years+

I would qualify as 'Traditional but much restored',😀😀😀😀

Roy

I learned to sail in a Graduate, a Scorpion and a , I think it was called a Fireball in the mid seventies all had jam cleats to keep the tension on the sheets. The bosses Warram catamaran had winches as described by Doug. If memory serves there was a button or small lever that allowed the winch to freewheel when going about..

From Alessandro's suggestion answering the question within 40 seconds would be a maximum score and half this for 'looking it up'.
The last few questions would for me have been no-brainers. But the rules and regs ones to do with SOLAS and with the answer a reference number were totally out of my experience. Reference to buoys, OK signal flags just forgotten the little I did know.

I did most of the theory side of a Yachtmasters course 50 years ago but then it was a big memory test, in many ways easier now as there is so much support equipment.

For instance listening to a weather forecast and noting all of it on to the weather map and then drawing the lines of pressure working out the pattern of what was happening. Usually a depression coming in across the Atlantic. Predicting the resultant weather and wind velocity and direction and what it will be like for the next 12 hours.

That was a small part of it! (signal flags and the morse code and passage making to follow). I did not attend the exam, no point as I had started at the top end and missed out the previous 3 years.
Went back to sailing dinghys and making models.

Roy

I agree the traditional made me think but I was using clam cleats earlier in the year for raising the sails and tensioning other items like the boom vang.

But the sail sheets normally get worked from the self tailing sail winches, most odd from engineering practices as you place a splined crank into the top and wind, but if you want more 'pull' you reverse direction.

The important part is to take the crank handle out and put it back in its holder!

Roy

How old does something have to be to be traditional?

I'm with you Doug. "traditional" threw me.
BTY, is AI traditional?

I've always known them as jam cleats...

Oh bbbbother!☹️
I thought Cam cleats are bit too modern and sophisticated to have been used on 'traditional' vessels. More likely on modern racing yachts.
Back to the thinking board!🤔
Don't get your halyards in twist folks.
Doug😎

Hi Pat, I think that AndyN invited me to this game (and also to the site) saying that it was a good pastime. He was right.

Some time ago I thought of a way to solve the issue of consulting external sources (web, books, etc. etc.) rather than relying only on one's own knowledge and memory. In reality, the system I had thought of did not totally exclude the possibility of consulting external sources but rewarded the answer without using these sources more. It was proportional and progressive. However, I have never proposed it yet and I do not know how feasible it is from a computer science point of view (even if, given Stephen's skills, I think it is feasible).

Gets harder the further up the ladder you get