Looking for an answer to a yachting question? Recently I have rediscovered Quora, a growing Question and Answer website. Quora is an interesting site because it has managed to draw so-called “high value contributors” who post under there real names. With the San Francisco America’s Cup coming up, Quora has quite a bit of activity in regards to yachts and boats. Also pushing up the content are the contributions of Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame who has taken on the topic of Boating as his medium to contribute to and explore on Quora. One his best answers is to the legendary “Are there more boats or pasta?” question.
If you are looking for answers, anyone can sign up and post a question. Or if you are interested in receiving a weekly email with the most popular of that week’s topics, sign up and you’ll get a weekly update (I do). There are many unanswered questions (ex. “How do AC45 boats go faster than the windspeed on the downward leg?”) that as a yachtsman/woman you might be able to contribute in and develop the sum of humanity’s knowledge too – if you are into that type of thing.