Excellent, Ross, this makes today's question more useful and informative for everyone. Thanks.

Great idea, Ross, well done.
If you overlay it with an arrow (you can use any free photo editor like Paint), it's even better.
Someone might say you clearly suggested the answer, and perhaps it would have been better to do it tomorrow, but now a lot of time has passed and almost everyone has responded, so it doesn't matter.
From now on, please don't make mistakes!

The keel of Bluenose, showing the stern knee in the foreground. Shown by arrows, Alessandro👍

A good friend of mine was the manager at Fluke where they made the meters. They also own Loctite as well.

He is retired now very busy making G1 model live steam railway engines and I usually pass onto him spare boats and yachts.
Roy

Great tools Dave.

Today's question, after finding the correct terms in Italian, seemed simple enough.
Yet, there was one term among the four I couldn't find, or rather, I couldn't find any relevance to the naval field.
Eventually, I found it and understood what it was.
Of course, it wasn't the right answer because I had already identified the correct one, but I wanted to be sure.

Alessandro,
Although I was familiar with the term in reference to anchors, the first thing that came to my mind was also the electronic test equipment line. I actually own a few!
Dave B

Hi Nickthestream. this is a Fluke.

Fluke are a left-side flatfish with both eyes on the left side of the body. They have a large mouth that can extend beyond its eyes. Females live up to 20 years and weigh about 20 pounds, while males rarely pass 7 years or 5 pounds. Fluke can change their dorsal coloration to camouflage with the ocean bottom.

Before translating it, the term Fluke reminded me of a brand of quality but very expensive multimeters that I have used in the past.

A fluke is also a flat worm which is a parasite on a fish causing a secondery infection😊

Isn't a Fluke also a fish?

Wow that has a wide answer spread! Having drawn up a few yacht plans the answer was more obvious, but not a bad question. Lately though I have put the main strength at the stern in the transom, which works well for model yachts but not so for full size.

You can make model boat/ yacht hull too strong as I have recently found out. When you build on a board and hold the frames in place and then plank or skin the hull, there are some very strong tensions with in the framework.
This becomes apparent when the hull is removed from the building board and internal forces resolve themselves and it could 'hog' the deck.
My next constructions will use balsa and obechi and lite ply, and strengthen the hull surface when the hull is removed and checked for accuracy.

Roy

I checked up on Fluke as in lucky..... It suggests it is an unexpected purchase (on the sea bed). But also has conotations today of ebay!
Roy

At the same time German UBoats we’re fitted medium calibre deck guns, this made them more efficient as they could surface and destroy unarmed smaller ships without wasting torpedoes.

Didn't that unrestricted warfare was a technological breakthrough either.
Hey ho, better have another banana 🍌 😜

Unrestricted submarine warfare which was the answer of today’s question is NOT a technological improvement or an innovation. Wake up guys.

Had that one before as well

Herr Capitan, If only we had had nuclear powered Uboats wid de snorkel and de radar guided torpedoes - we would have conquered de world.. 💥💥 👹 😨 ✌👊.......
As Per the TV comedy programs Allo Allo & Dad's Army. No offence intended.🤔.

From the 'Spud' Disambiguation page on Wiki-

"Spud, steel pile that can be lowered to penetrate the bottom to hold a spud barge in position, often deployed at each corner of the barge. Also used to position a dredge - see Dredging#Grab dredgers."

They were also used on sections of the Mulberry Harbours deployed on the D Day landing beaches.
I first heard about them in a docu (History Channel?) about the Mulberries and D Day.

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Strange enough, I knew this answer from watching the Discovery Channel TV series Bering Sea Gold.
Several of the miners use Spud Barges to dredge for gold on that show.
Whatcha can't learn by watching mindless TV entertainment ......
Dave B

I think A.I. has officially lost it! Spud indeed, I hardly read the question!
The Which (UK goods and services comparison magazine, takes no enemies) said at worst A.I. was 54% accurate, you would fail most exams with that score, and 71% which is just about acceptable.

Roy

The only reason I knew this one was a few weeks back I was doing research for my Motorflote project that I am currently building. Saw a reference to a spud barge so I dug a bit deeper. Found spuds were poles as well as potatoes 😂

Took the longest answer today (29th) and also used the answer is in the question theory 😊.
Even though I have walked along the canal banks at Castleford, I don't know much about barges 😏☺.

There are still 3% who got it wrong😆

How many times have we had this question in the last couple of months ?

I am sure I got this one right last time it came around, but still managed to get it wrong this time!

We had this one before i had to use those "little grey cells"😁 but lucky for me remembered it right ,did everyone get what they wanted for christmas and where they on the good list 🤣
Philuk👍

Hi Steve S same here same films after all there is not much peace and goodwill in the real world and in the films the 'baddies' eventually got their comuppance!
Roy

Yep!🙄

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We have had this question before, at least three times now, so another revision of a revision of a revision.😊.
I watched Pearl Harbour, Midway and Tora Tora Tora over these Christmas holidays- Peace and Good Will to aĺl men. Certainly not on the TV 😐😃.
I saw Pearl Harbour get bombed and torpedoed and the Arizona written off three times-but they were all good action films 👍.

we have seen this before. I remember this from the line in the Stan Rogers song BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS.

"A LETTER OF MARQUE CAME FROM THE KING TO THE SCUMMIEST VESSEL I'VE EVER SEEN"

Same here sailed dinghys a bit an more big ones, but never heard of the phrase, so chose the longest answer.
Roy

Having completely failed at R/C sailing, I took the easy way out today and selected the longest answer. Seemed to work!

Longest answer won! Merry Chrimbo folks!😀😀😀

D is the best answer but not entirely correct.
Merry Christmas all

Ed

I used the longest awnser theory.

Merry Christmas everyone

Good morning everyone and Happy Christmas Eve.

Who among you has ever sailed as captain or crew member (sheets) on a cutter?
I haven't.
I've come across a few (much less than the very common and widespread sloops) but I've never had the opportunity to climb aboard one.
Yet I thought the reasoning was similar to that of the sloop.
So once I translated the terms correctly (there's a word that's the key to everything), the answer was quite easy, especially if you've seen it in person.

Hi all, interesting question, as I thought about this when I altered a sailing boat to have a flying jib on a bowsprit in a gaff rig. At that size my yacht is/was it was sufficient to have the fore jib on a bridle but have a standard servo pull it in according to the wind pressure. You can see the effect on the wing slot as it directs the air through.
Roy

Hi Steve, I know what you're talking about. It's happened to me once or twice.

Now that is interesting. There are two correct answers here. Tidal flows do change direction at headlands C. and they do accelerate at headlands B. I just happened to pick the wrong one. Never mind. I guess I should have Googled it first. 😂

Alessandro, your comments on the 22nd December question was bang-on with me. (Carelessness). 😐
I worked out the correct answer fairly quickly and while deleting the adverts pressed the adjacent wrong answer and pressed the "are you sure" button before realising that😣😗.
So after called myself an absolute ***** I went to bed in disgust 😕😞😭..
Today's qotd wasn't too bad with a bit of thought..🤔

Oh well,
Back on track, I went for the longest answer.
It sounded the most logical to me.

I knew it.
I was right
I got it todays question wrong..
I said it wouldn't be long before I started to go down the list.
Lets see what tommorow brings??

The answers are blurred to those that have not yet answered them.
Roy

I'll try not to reveal the answer, so as not to spoil the game for those who haven't yet answered.

For the answer with a 21% score, I can only imagine typos, carelessness, or consulting flawed AI. Any reasoning would have led to the correct answer.
For the answer with a 7% score, consider a stronger factor than necessary.

I see from the group answers that there was another possible action, it could account for the 'radio assisted collisions' I see on the lake.😁😁😁😁

Roy

I knew the answer before I opened the options available. I learnt what otter boards are from reading model boat magazines! Probably the first time I have been able to use knowledge gained from my modelling activities in QotD.

The confeti is getting a bit weak 🤣🤣 struggles to come down
Philuk👍

Learnt something new! I guessed or perhaps it was uninformed logic?
Roy

It was a toss up between A & B for me.🤔
I went for B because I just thought the journey length it would need to extend the shelf life.
Plus the goods have got to spend time on our shop shelves when they get here.
Even the though most of the Banana's are green when they get here, don't know about
the avocados, as I don't like them anyway.