We still haven't sorted the highest point on a ship and now this one.. Will these come in 3's I wonder?? 😂😂

You are absolutely right AlessandroSPQR, another questionable question.

I am playing this game like golf. The lowest average wins. Sounds good to me.🤣

Good morning everyone.

Sorry, I haven't read the other posts yet because they were blacked out before.

In my opinion the answer is absolutely wrong.

This is my opinion but I invite everyone to consult sailing books (from the cheapest to the most expensive) to verify what I say.

Initially I thought I had made a mistake due to a wrong translation, but this is not the case.

If the wind comes from behind the only correct answers can only be:

Broad reach (in Italian "lasco") which is the best and most efficient pace.

Running (in Italian "da poppa").

It is absolutely not close hauled or close reach, because in that case the wind comes from the front.

The beam reach comes from the side.

And I always thought the ultimate answer to everything was 4. No wonder the wife argues with me all of the time.😬

I agree, Stephen is only human just like the rest of us. Keep the questions coming!

“Poor Stephen gets clobbered almost everyday, trying to meet so many of us calling his answers into question”.

I had not considered it from this perspective. No more complaints from me

Hi Rowen if you look at the number posts / members who post then this is the most popular thread.
Regards
Roy

Seems to be another 'None of the above' today🙄

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It is fun and interesting answering these questions and thanks for doing it. But once again I have to call into question the supposed correct answer. I have done dingy sailing for some time and the supposed correct answer is not what I would have called it. In fact what I think is the answer is not in the options. ⛵ Sad to see my average go down ☹️

Lost it on "slightly." Too early for me to focus I guess. 😆

Seems like a lifetime of sailing has not helped me - 'slightly' behind is not clear - behind what? the stern, or more than 90 degrees aft? 90 degrees aft is a beam reach, between close hauled and 90 is a close reach. Running is fully astern. Poor Stephen gets clobbered almost everyday, trying to meet so many of us calling his answers into question, but then it keeps our minds and poor brains good at typing our comments😁

It is a beam reach, so got it wrong!
The idea of a quiz was quite entertaining,but as the questions and answers are unrelated think it has lived it’s time.
Suggest close it down whilst still ahead

R N, as I recall it was Jinx the cat from Pixie and Dixie that "hates meeces to pieces"...

I carnt agree a tall that Inglish is stoopid. The langwidge has been added 2 as our conkerers have cum and gon or stayed. In 1066 frenj Bill landed at astings as is mates ad told im he was the riteful king. He stayed and liked wot essaw. e bilt a few peers rownd the coste for the lads. If franz woz that gud e cud av gorn home arfter but i spec he woz fed up wiv snales 4 brekfst.
E never whent bak so it mus tave been beta ear than frarns. Moast invadurs r fed up with thair one cuntry nd they sta.

So wot langwidge do tha speek? Thay bring there oan and plonk it on top of the nativs 1.

Wee av all thers and our bits 2 and we hav a com plex 1 lik the bloak sin iglus av wiv 50 wurds 4 sno.

It seeems the wiffy fav vors Inglish so liv with it ore go and invad some wear.

I did knot get speshul treetmnt wen the boms were forling lik wot the covid skolars dun. we ad 2 liv wiv it

anon, but I am 85 !/2 !

Hi Boatshed!
This is similar in the German language, it depends on the emphasis or a comma
is missing ( , ) 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Example:
We eat, grandpa
or
we eat grandpa ! 🫢🫢🫢
Nice day all, Michel-C

Ps: I love humour and life, as well as health . . . the important things in old age.
Crafting is part of it here!!! 😊😊😊

Hi MIKE STONEY, I am 73 and a half and to me our English language half the time doesn't make sense to me.we have words that have are spelt the same for two different things and you can say some thing and with our tone of voice could mean something completely different.
It it a stupid language. So how can a foreign person learn it if we cannot completely understand some of it's meaning's. For an example, you take your dog for a walk on it's LEAD. or. I use LEAD weights when I go fishing. I put it down to the KING's stupid ENGLISH Language.

I just took a lucky stab at it and got it wrong🤣. Then I Googled it just out of curiosity t o see what that came up at and it said BROAD REACH🤔, but I am not into sailing anyway so I wouldn't know which is now right. To me this is just a bit of fun. All I know is give way to sail on the river⛵ as I did own a small cabin cruiser on the Norfolk Broard's for 25 years and a small outboard powered boat🚤 trailered for 15 years, great fun that was🤣😂.

🙈🙈🙈
When the wind comes from behind, we say: it's on. . >>running
Tztztztz the English language is a book with 7 seals!
. . . . . especially your sailor language.
😏😏 Michel-C
Ps: Guys, don't let it get you down, let's keep tinkering!

Points of sail

These are generally the ones that most sailors use. The close reach is forward of the beam not behibd it.
Roy

Really? I can’t agree with any of them 🤔

Guessed lucky-NOT, never been actually sailing ⛵️ and not enough time to play and learn with the DF65 😂

Absolutely Roy👍
Make sure you keep your towel handy.
Reckon we're all gonna need one the way things are going😉
Tom (from Tom and Jerry) got it dead right all those years ago:
"I HATE MIECES TO PIECES!"😁

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Hello Doug does that mean the mice really are running everything? I have had my suspicions as the Covid enqiry in the UK has revealed a 'lack of expertise' amongst those who would like to think they are our betters!

I think the mice have it!

Roy

"I think it may be the ultimate question that has no wrong answers."
Nope Roy! Can't be, I think we all know by now that the answer to that is "42".
I have it on good authority from Slarty Bartfast😁
Man did he love his Fjords😂🤣

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To be clear, I am merely a once-in-awhile participant but this one strikes me as obtuse. Full disclosure, I guessed wrong but I will be participating less.🤕

Tut tut should have gone Christmas shopping then I might have got it right

Well I managed to get that one wrong!!!

I think it may be the ultimate question that has no wrong answers.
Roy

Well that was a very LUCKY guess.

I knew it would be C. Who needs the queation?

Roy

Eeny meeny miny moe ...🙄

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Rogal 118 A GOOD MORNING
how do you know the answer when you don't have a cristal bowl?????
Why did you lye to me when i asked?!?i😀😀😀😀😀😀

I even got todays second question right 😂😂

I used my crystal bowls and chose D which came out right.but when a question appeared, to keep the paper work straight chose D again and was wrong.
Is this some sinister under hand plot to send us all crackers???.

Well I picked B for Boat and the Brotherhood of modellers.
Cheers Colin.

Very clever - cannot tell if anyone else has the same issue to seeing the question when email notifications are blurred out until you take pot luck in picking an answer with no question. Is this to test our mental agility in being psychic?

Yep, just the letters??🤔
So it's POTLUCK today folks!
I agree Roy👍 I'm dipping out today as well.

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Oops,
A is too perfect, D is nothing, so I take B, I'm not always perfect when it comes to crafting. .
😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
Michel-C

Houston Houston Houston
Calling!
We do have à Problem!!!

Of course my option precludes any way of knowing what is going on due to the rules applied, but my % score has reduced so I know the system is working!
Roy

Hello everyone.
Today, no questions and no answers appear to me. Letters only. To you too?

I seem to have the ultimate question!
It assumes that as I will just guess, so there is no point in posing the question.

So only options of A,B,C,D are supplied.
I think I will decline this one as it implies acceptance.
Roy

C was also correct 😊

Well that was different, out of interest, I selected "D" and this was correct. Was it the same for everyone else?😂

Is this answer all of the above😊as I didn't see a question
Rick

Well…that was different!! 😁

What is the question for the 6th or do we have to make our own up?.

Well, every day's a school day 😃

Hallo Hermank, Belgian friend.

I think it works simply like this:

The percentage expresses exactly the ratio of your correct and incorrect answers.
Since you are the only one participating for your country, feedback is very easy.
If you are alone, the maximum number of answers given is 30 or 31.
For example you (and therefore all of Belgium) now have 26 correct answers out of a total of 30 which is precisely the percentage of 86.66667 % (26:30=x:100; x=26/30 x 100).

If you have the total number of correct answers, for example 30 out of 30 you will have one hundred percent; but it will be enough to get one wrong to immediately reach 97% (in fact 29:30 =x:100; x=29/30 x 100 = 96.66667%).
Attention, be very careful here:
All subsequent correct answers will not change your 97% because the system updates after 30 days, so you will always have 29 correct questions out of a total of 30.
To get 30 correct questions out of a total of 30 questions given, you must get them all right and wait 30 days for your incorrect question to clear.
I don't know if I was clear, I hope so.
I didn't understand this system until I was told that it updates on a monthly basis.
Now everything is clear to me and everything adds up perfectly.

If I can help you, I'll give an example with Germany (I think it's just RNinMunich). Now he has 97% because he got a question wrong. You will be able to get 100% again when one month passes from the date of the last wrong answer (always answering correctly).

The system (although questionable) is correct, so far it has not made any errors, at least from what I have found.