SUPERQUIZ at the end of the year! Answer and win a super-subscription to GdV!

How much do you know about seafaring culture, technique, education? In this New Year “superquiz” we have prepared for you 20 questions, put yourself to the test and send your answers to the email speciali@panamaeditore.it (simply answer with the question number and the letter of the answer you think is correct: example: 1 – A, 2 – C.. etc). The first person to answer all questions correctly will win a three-year super-subscription to the Journal of Sailing! Get started and. happy 2019!

1. Who, according to the chronicles, uttered the historic phrase “Any fool could sail around the world, but it takes a sailor with the attributes to be able to do it drunk”?

A) Robin Knox-Johnston
B) Bernard Moitessier
(c) Francis Chichester

2. Who was the first sailor to circumnavigate the terrible southern oceans?

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A) Joshua Slocum (1892-95)
B) Vito Dumas (1942-43)
C) Chay Blyth (1971)

3. In what year did the irredentists captained by Glauco Gaber set sail from Trieste bound for Buenos Aires in a lifeboat equipped with a small sail, the Italia-Trieste (the venture was successful)?

A) 1946
B) 1947
C) 1948

4. How did Ellen McArthur, the great British yachtswoman, rank in the 2000-2001 Vendée Globe (nonstop solo round-the-world race aboard Imoca 60)?

A) Second
B) First
C) He did not participate in that edition

5. How did the late solo sailor Simone Bianchetti (1968-2003) die?

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A) He was taken ill in the harbor at Savona.
B) He fell into the water during the Route du Rhum.
C) Due to a traffic accident in South Africa.

6. Which two sailors lost their lives as a result of the 1968 Golden Globe Race (nonstop solo round-the-world race), one during the race, the other in 1972 while he was building the boat to try again after failing?

A) Donald Crowhurst and Loïck Fougeron
B) Donald Crowhurst and Nigel Tetley.
C) Eric Tabarly and John Ridgway

7. Who was the competitor who polemicized with Giovanni Soldini after the Milanese navigator rescued Isabelle Autissier at the 1998-99 Around Alone (solo round-the-world race in stages), claiming that Soldini had an advantage by having the navigator on board?

A) Fyodor Konyukhov
B) Josh Hall
C) Marc Thiercelin

8. How old was Danish-American fisherman Alfred Johnson when, in 1876, he made the solo crossing of the Atlantic from Gloucester, Massachusetts, to Abercastle, Wales, in a 20-foot sailboat?

A) 22
B) 30
C) 68

9. Who is the only Italian to have won a solo round-the-world race?

A) Alex Carozzo
B) Giovanni Soldini
C) Vittorio Malingri

10. Who was the first Italian to win the Ostar?

A) Giovanni Soldini
B) Franco Manzoli
C) Andrea Mura

11. Vessels serving recreational units̀ (tenders) at what distance from the coast can they sail?
(a) Within 6 miles of the coast.
(b) Within 1 mile of the coast.
(c) Within 1 mile of the coast or parent unit, wherever that may be.

12. In carrying gaits the area of the sail adjacent to the leech must be kept:
(a) Flat.
(b) Concave.
(c) Convex.

13. On the Douglas scale of sea state, the digit 5 corresponds to:
(a) Very rough.
(b) Very agitated.
(c) Agitated.

14. Generally, the weather improves if:
(a) The pressure increases and the moisture content increases.
(b) The pressure decreases and the moisture content decreases.
(c) The pressure increases and the moisture content decreases.

15. Low pressures generally shift:
(a) From O toward E.
(b) From E to O.
(c) From N toward S.

16. The bow triangle is:
(a) The deck area forward of the mast.
(b) The part of the sail plan bounded by the mast and forestay and the distance between the mast and the tack point.
(c) The point where the jib is hoisted.

17. The anchor that resembles a plowshare is called:
(a) Hall.
(b) Bruce.
(c) C.Q.R.

18. A boat that has a waterline length of 7.6 meters what speed can it reach upwind?
(a) 7.6 knots.
(b) 6.7 knots.
(c) 5.8 knots.

19. What is “grippia”?
(a) A line that is tied to the anchor ring to prevent the anchor from plowing.
(b) A line that is tied to the anchor diamond for easy retrieval.
(c) A line that can be tied to the spindle to adjust the anchorage.

20. Mainsail refuses in the area near the mast:
(a) We retract the jib sheet carriage.
(b) Let go of the mainsail halyard.
(c) We tension the mainsail halyard.

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