PEGLEG'S QUERY #4
	Ok, you old geezer salts, put on your memory machine helmets, 'cause we've got a question from the baby boomer's early years. What was the name of the Navy vessel that retrieved astronaut Scott Carpenter in 1960 after his Aurora 7 Mercury space capsule splashed down into the Atlantic? Hint: She also picked up astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young after their successful splashdown of the first manned Gemini 3 orbital flight in 1965. 2. There are three generalities (or rules of thumb) that result from the relationship of true to apparent wind. Sailors will know, without the use of instruments, those three rules. What are the three rules and how do sailors know the wind direction? 3. What does the phrase to swig mean? It's not what you think even though you might be a participant in both activities! 4. In racing, a boat that is in the hunt is what? 5. The maneuver which will return your vessel to a person who has fallen overboard in the shortest time is: a. a Williamson turn b. engine(s) crash astern, no turn c. a single turn with hard rudder d. two 180 degree turns See how y'ev done. Peek at Pegleg's Booty. (Thems the answers, ye naughty one!) LOOK FER MORE

PEGLEG'S QUERY #4

Ok, you old geezer salts, put on your memory machine helmets, 'cause we've got a question from the baby boomer's early years. What was the name of the Navy vessel that retrieved astronaut Scott Carpenter in 1960 after his Aurora 7 Mercury space capsule splashed down into the Atlantic?
Hint: She also picked up astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young after their successful splashdown of the first manned Gemini 3 orbital flight in 1965.

2. There are three generalities (or rules of thumb) that result from the relationship of true to apparent wind. Sailors will know, without the use of instruments, those three rules. What are the three rules and how do sailors know the wind direction?

3. What does the phrase to swig mean? It's not what you think even though you might be a participant in both activities!

4. In racing, a boat that is in the hunt is what?

5. The maneuver which will return your vessel to a person who has fallen overboard in the shortest time is:
a. a Williamson turn
b. engine(s) crash astern, no turn
c. a single turn with hard rudder
d. two 180 degree turns

See how y'ev done. Peek at Pegleg's Booty. (Thems the answers, ye naughty one!)

LOOK FER MORE