Digital Forge are really just looking for sailors with Iphones to start using their app and if you are happy with the result then you'll tell your friends, who can then buy from the IPhone store for less than a couple of dollars.
Competition is restricted to US residents (cos the code is only good for the US)
In no way shape or form does SailNet endorse the product.
Winners must use the code within 30 days.
We'll put the winners in touch with DF as soon as we get ten correct entries.
Winners will be based on order in which correct entries reach my inbox.
Question One
Tightening the backstay on a fractional rigged boat...... a) bends the mast and loosens the forestay flattening the mainsail but powering up the jib.
b) bends the mast, tensions the forestay, flattening the mainsail and jib at the same time that it opens the leech on both sails
c) bends the mast, tensions the forestay, flattening the mainsail and jib at the same time that it tightens the leech on both sails.
Question Two
On a pound for pound basis which is the correct order in from strongest to weakest in terms of strength in bending?
a) Steel, GRP, cold molded cedar, ferrocement.
b) Steel, Ferrocement, GRP, Cold molded cedar
c) Cold molded cedar, GRP, Steel, ferrocement
d) Ferrocement, Steel, GRP, Cold molded cedar
Question Three
You are sailing along on a starboard tack keeping an eye on an approaching freighter to weather that might be on a collision course. Still some distance away, the freighter sounds two blasts. You should.....
a) immediately tack to give her clear passage, leaving you on her port side
b) hold your course, as she has indicated she will leave you to starboard
c) hold your course, after all you are on starboard tack
d) gybe away and sail a parallel course
Question Four
You are sailing in relatively open water in North America and in the distance you spot a navigation buoy. It is yellow and black, with top marks two black pointing-down cones. This means the hazard it is marking is to the.....
a) north
b) south
c) east
d) west
Answers Q1 - Q2 - Q3 - Q4 -
Good Luck.
Remember - Don't post your answers. PM then to TDW.
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Didn't see any info on the app at their website... iPhone apps don't even appear to be mentioned on their site.
As for the answers...X.X.X.X
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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Hey, where did you find the tensile strength info? I couldn't find anything that indicated ANY wood product came close to steel on the scale. I thought the cold process wood was pretty interesting...
Smack...don't try that on smart arse....you got two of them right. I'm sure glad you are not my navigator.....
Saraf.....you'd have to ask Jeff_H for that info. He came up with the question but I thought that was the correct order. ColdMoulded has immense strength for its weight while steel carries a major weight penalty in order to get the strength. As the owner of a smallish (34') steel sloop I can tell you that compared to her cold moulded or glass sisters she is less than nippy in light airs. Raven carries a couple of thousand pound extra compared to her siblings and what is worse a lot of that extra weight is in the hull, deck and superstructure, not down in the keel where it would do the most good.
Ref Question two....I'd like to know where aluminium fits into the mix. I'd have guessed at number one, followed by CMC, then GRP etc etc.
Van de Stadt 34
Displacement (steel) 5.40 t 11900 lbs
Displ. (aluminium/timber) 4.50 t 9900 lbs
Ballast (steel) 1.80 t 4000 lbs
Ballast (aluminium/timber) 2.00 t 4400 lbs
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