Agreed Rowen👍
(But spelt Machias !)
Fought in June 1775 at Machiasport.
Wonder which 'wrong' answer is deemed correct!?
I'm not playing 'Quiz Roulette' this time😉
Cheers, Doug😎
Note: There are significant discrepancies between these two Wiki accounts of the battle!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machias,_Maine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Machias

Not according to Wikipedia, all the suggestions are wrong.Should be Manchias

Must be a 'Sea Anchor' Doogle😉

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Interesting idea of an anchor 😂

I am usually gruntled most of the time but here I have to add the dis.

Roy

If you look at the other possible answers KEEL is the only correct one!

Exactly Phil&Roy,👍
And the question specifically mentions 'a boat', not a ship.
Yours Disgruntled😠, again with this question!

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How much did you make Roy?🤑🤑🤑

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HA! After building model boats for more than 50 years I knew that😁😁

Me too, Dgossa, I used to organise a club quiz night.
After the first one what with the complaints all subsequent complaints had to be written on a £5 note which was non-refundable!

Worked very well.
Roy

In all fairness the very often the keel does protrude below the bottom of a boat I e rowing boat and the like 😂👍

I love these controversies.. Like asking is the Sole or the Heel the lowest part of the shoe. Or are the front wheels of a supermarket trolley pushed or pulled??

They should be Christmas Cracker questions!

BTW... Have a prosperous New Year all!!!

We had a problem with this question before. If a ship is out of the water you can only see the hull, the keel is a structure inside the hull.

With a yacht the weighted keel is below the hull, but not for catamarans etc.

As my score slowly sinks again!!!!

Roy

Oops . . . .
Doesn't the hull include the keel?
This is one unit . . English just . .
„Mann“ lernt nie aus!
( „Man“ Never stop learning)
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Michel-C.

Had the last 2 possible answers answers been switched, then it would have been in ascending order. Silly observation for the day 🤪 😂.
Have a great day everyone 😀

My average is going up again..finally….😁

Dude!!! Sweet F250! Now, that’s a truck…

Cash! You’d love my wife’s ‘64 F250. 292 Y-Block. 4-Speed with granny gear. 😉

I’ve been a Ford parts man since 1994. The same thing happens to us, especially on the retail counter. Someone will order a left headlight, mirror, trim, whatever’s “handed”. It comes in, it’s the wrong side. They’re looking at the front of the car, ordering a left lamp but they’re looking at the lamp on the cars right side….from the front of the car. I’ve had techs do the same thing….🙄
Cash

Exactamente Doogle,👍
That's what the debate was about last time; standing on the boat or in front of it.
Cheers, Doug😎

Thanks for the heads up Jumpugly👍😉
The mechanism featured in the 'Strangest Things' series, shown on German TV a few months ago. I imagine that all the known wrecks around Greece and all the Aegean islands could keep the quiz going another few months.🙄
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Not owning a boat apart from my models, I remember port as left- both having 4 letters and therefore starboard has to be right, that's providing you're facing the bow when standing in the stern. Works for me 😊

Hi, RMinMunich, I got it Wrong, I didn't see this question if it was a repeat question. And I'm ashamed to think after previously owning a boat for so long I did get it wrong.

Wow what an idiot, I owned a boat for over 25 years up on the Norfolk Broads and knowing Port is left and Right is Starboard. I am thinking I am facing the front of the boat and that's the left side, but that's my left side, in a way a bit of a trick question, you just need to read the question properly and and just not jump in with the first answer that comes into your head, so yep I got that wrong BIG time . Yep my left wasn't the boats left,THINK IDYOT.

Just like TV ... All repeats!🤔
Hey Ho.
Be interesting to see if it launches the same discussion as last time.
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Welcome back Ed👍😀
Best wishes, Doug😎

Best of everything EdW, get well soon, Merry Christmas to all

Titanic seems to be favoured quite a bit recently 😁

Hang in there Ed! Now get down to the shop and get to work! Merry Christmas!!!

Edw good luck, let's hope next year brings lots of it, all the best for Christmas 🎄🎁 hopefully you will soon be tinkering again 👍

Edw a good morning
i thought it must have been something serious otherwise it would be impossible not visiting this site for a week. I wish you first of all a fast recovery from your surgery and i m shure being back on this site that will fasten your health and will you in no time being able to restart your building.
I wish you a merry x-mas and definetly a better start of the yeat than you finished it👍👍👍👍

Herman I am recovering from major surgery and some days I am not up to much but hopefully I will be myself soon
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And for a second I thought it was the Antikythera Wreck discovery of 1901 was the answer…where the famed Antikythera Mechanism was found.

edw
were you ill? not being on this site for a week???????????????????????????????????????????
YOU MUST BE ASHAME😂😂😂

Just caught up with question of the day, have not been on the site for a week.

Hi. I am once again confused. Isn't todays question about the Greek ship the same as yesterdays question?🤔

Titanic again! I watched a TV documentary, something like why ships sink and midway through it the design of the Titanic was was called into question.

To cut it short the opinion was that the ship would break in half sooner or later.
It was down to the weakness of the hull internals at the point where she did break up.

There were also pictures of ships that had broken in two whilst in dock. According to a search I have just done and dated Nov. 2023, 2 ships are lost at sea every week!
This does not include small craft like fishing boats etc.

Anyone for a cruise?

Roy

I really, really had to think about this one. Was going with the Lusitania, but changed my mind last minute…😀

Sure makes the answer easier when three of the four are a no brainer.
Rick

This is getting silly!🙄
Today the question and correct answer match.
Yesterday the same answers did not quite match the question, dates different!
But it was obvious, in both cases, that 3 options were definitely wrong.
Recall that there was bit of a debate the last time these questions appeared.
At least Roy will be 'chuffed' that Titanic is back again😉
Merry Christmas All🎁🎁🎁 Ho Ho Ho😁
Cheers, Doug😎

I looked it up on Wiki found this;

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Kyrenia Ship is the wreck of a 4th-century BC ancient Greek merchant ship. It was discovered by Greek-Cypriot diving instructor Andreas Cariolou in November 1965 during a storm

I was sure the first time around, and I still am now😁
Un autre déjà-vu!
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A newer release from Dumas...https://www.dumasproducts.com/?product=great-lakes-freighter-kit-1264

This is a nice one on the Fitzgerald.

Never knew that, well you learn something new 🤔

Subject of an episode of the Lost Ships series some years back.
Turns up from time to time in German TV under the series title of 'Seenot' (Sea Emergency).
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Good question, but now I’ll be hearing the song in head for days.
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There was a great documentary on about Gordon Lightfoot recently. A good watch for sure! 😉

Good job that the other three choices were fairly famous. 😃

Hi all, I knew the question by reading the answers.
Welcome back Titanic as an optional answer.
However the conversation keeps going, the challengers of the answers reflect a wide knowledge by our membership and often raise other side interests.

No one envies our Quizmaster so "Good on yer".

On the shortest day "look on the bright side"

Roy