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It took several questions before I strongly disagreed with their answer, although there were a few 'it depends'...

You are on passage, close hauled and the wind is expected to shift forward in 4 hours, which is fastest?
•Continue steering directly toward the destination
•Steer close hauled
•Steer high but not close hauled



I can't see how the third option is the right answer.....
 
There's a couple where I didn't particularly like any of the options but possibly because of the way they were worded, for example the one about getting water out of a crankcase which I think actually meant getting water out of the cylinders judging by the 'correct' solution.
 
winsbury said:
There's a couple where I didn't particularly like any of the options but possibly because of the way they were worded, for example the one about getting water out of a crankcase which I think actually meant getting water out of the cylinders judging by the 'correct' solution.
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They said 'block' which I took to mean 'crankcase' rather than cylinders or cooling circuit.
My poor reading of the question perhaps, or trans-atlantic translation?
I think removing the injectors is the hard way, particularly if the engine has decompressors.
I would pull the decompressor and turn the engine, initially by hand myself.
 
prv said:
Definitely some where they assert as absolute facts things that most people would consider a matter of opinion.

Pete
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That's why I don't do pub quizzes. The only questions I know the answer to, the quizmaster is likely to be wrong!
 
lw395 said:
It took several questions before I strongly disagreed with their answer, although there were a few 'it depends'...

You are on passage, close hauled and the wind is expected to shift forward in 4 hours, which is fastest?
•Continue steering directly toward the destination
•Steer close hauled
•Steer high but not close hauled

It depends on the distance to cover, but the first two options may mean that, as the wind shifts, you will end up directly to leeward of your destination
and have to cover the remaining distance in a series of tacks.

The third option means sailing lower than the course required, probably on a close reach, so you will sail faster. As the wind shifts, with a bit of luck,
you will be able to tack once and lay your destination directly. Probably more enjoyable, less work and might be quicker than the other two options.

Andy
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winsbury said:
There's a couple where I didn't particularly like any of the options but possibly because of the way they were worded, for example the one about getting water out of a crankcase which I think actually meant getting water out of the cylinders judging by the 'correct' solution.
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I got all the provisioning right go figure, I know nothing about it and guessed.

If I want to get the water out an engine block, I take out the drain plug. But what would I know Im not a mechanic.

I got all most every thing else wrong. or had a different opinion
 
ANDY_W said:
lw395 said:
It took several questions before I strongly disagreed with their answer, although there were a few 'it depends'...

You are on passage, close hauled and the wind is expected to shift forward in 4 hours, which is fastest?
•Continue steering directly toward the destination
•Steer close hauled
•Steer high but not close hauled

It depends on the distance to cover, but the first two options may mean that, as the wind shifts, you will end up directly to leeward of your destination
and have to cover the remaining distance in a series of tacks.

The third option means sailing lower than the course required, probably on a close reach, so you will sail faster. As the wind shifts, with a bit of luck,
you will be able to tack once and lay your destination directly. Probably more enjoyable, less work and might be quicker than the other two options.

Andy
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Yep, that's pretty good justification for that answer... However, in my head, I was planning to be in early for a drink, so my destination was only 45 minutes away. Why would I change course for a possible weather shift 3 hours after I'm alongside?


So interesting to take part, but without a whole hod load more detail, most of those questions come down to detail. There are far too many different boats on the water for anyone to tell me that two foresails will be quicker than a main and a foresail poled out on opposite sides.

Plus, pretty certain a right hand prop causes starboard kick at the stern, so the fastest turn is to port, not starboard.

So fun, but double check before you go believing every answer...
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JesseLoynes said:
There are far too many different boats on the water for anyone to tell me that two foresails will be quicker than a main and a foresail poled out on opposite sides.
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+1 - won't go anywhere in our previous, gaff-rigged, boat if you take down the big barn door of a mainsail.

Writing a multiple-choice quiz with brief questions is just silly unless you stick to outright indisputable facts.

Pete
 
>You are on passage, close hauled and the wind is expected to shift forward in 4 hours, which is fastest?

They are close hauled

>•Continue steering directly toward the destination

If they are steering to the destination as they said above they are close hauled and the wind is due to shift forward

>•Steer close hauled

They are close hauled

>•Steer high but not close hauled

If they steer less than close hauled then they will sailing away from their destination and the options are reach or tack. Reachings is fast but will put more distance away from the destination.

What we would used to do is tack to reach a position where we could go back to the destination close hauled. We did that a number of times when sailing from Burnham on Crouch to Falmouth. It seemed to work well but I wouldn't be surprised if others have a different method/experience
 
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The faster turn Port or Starboard.

If you just go hard over. The right hand screw going ahead will assist the turn to port. The turning circle to port generaly tighter than to starboard.

On the other hand.

If you turn short round.

You can generaly turn tighter to starboard than to port.

Due to the prop walk effect bieng greater when ussing astern propulsion and not being countered by the flow of wash passing the rudder. So every time you give a shot of stern thrust your stern goes to port and bow to Starboard. So it assist turn to Starboard

So again back to depends on circumstnce boat and opionion.
 
winsbury said:
cant believe how many questions I got wrong !
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After reading the other comments I'm feeling much better now, thank you although somewhat dismayed not to know the destination with the most pubs !

To my mind, which way to turn and which tack to steer depends somewhat on tide too:

Assuming no other effects, holding the rudder in one direction on constant revs while in a strong tidal flow will create a coil shaped ground path; therefore the turn would be accomplished over the smallest ground area by steering against the flow; this increases effective water flow rate requiring higher engine revs which in turn makes prop-walk less pronounced hence a turn mainly upstream should result in a smaller turning circle than turning downstream.

Some boats in certain conditions may well perform better tacking close reach to close reach rather than close hauling but that also ignores tidal effects; over a 4+ hour period that seems an unrealistic assumption as the question seems to be about a reasonably distant destination.
 
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