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What is the America's Cup named after?
Answer: A yacht
Why: It began as the Royal Yacht Squadron's £100 Cup and took the name of the schooner America after her 1851 win.
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What did the first Beaufort wind scale describe?
Answer: Effects on sails
Why: Its descriptions switched from a frigate's sails to the sea, plus signs on land, only in 1916.
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Which measurement sets a yacht's 'hull speed'?
Answer: Waterline length
Why: Hull speed grows with the square root of waterline length: a 33-foot waterline gives about 7.7 knots.
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What is a 'sheet' on a sailboat?
Answer: A rope
Why: A sheet sets the sail's angle to the wind; the rope that hoists the sail is a halyard.
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How long is a nautical mile?
Answer: 1,852 m
Why: It was originally the length of one minute of latitude, a sixtieth of a degree, measured along a meridian.
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Where did Moitessier sail instead of finishing the Golden Globe race?
Answer: Tahiti
Why: By the time he reached Tahiti in June 1969, he had sailed about 37,455 nautical miles alone.
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