- In navigation,
a rhumb line,
rhumb (/rʌm/), or
loxodrome is an arc
crossing all
meridians of
longitude at the same angle, that is,
a path with constant...
-
standard map
projection for
navigation due
to its
property of
representing rhumb lines as
straight lines. When
applied to world maps, the
Mercator projection...
- wind—acting
on sails,
wingsails or kites—
to propel a craft on the
surface of the
water (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer),
on ice (iceboat)...
- by pegs and
cords to a series of peg
holes beneath it. It
allowed a helmsman to keep
a rough check of the time
sailed on each
rhumb of the wind. The traverse...
- that such
a venture would involve.
Sailing website Sail-World.com
published an
analysis on 3 May 2010
which claimed that the
expected rhumb line distance...
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a wide
variety of topics:
a dedication to his
patron and
a copyright statement;
discussions of
rhumb lines;
great circles and distances;
comments on some...
- that
follows a rhumb line — that is, all
meridians are cut at the same angle.
On a nautical chart following the
Mercator projection,
a loxodromic is...
-
radiate the 32
classic rhumbs: 0°, 11 1/4°, 22 1/2°, 33 3/4°, etc. The
western and
eastern outer circles are
tangent to each
other at
a large wind-rose in...
- race can
hinge on the
chosen route:
Rhumb line The
shortest route on paper — i.e.
on a Mercator projection chart — is
a route which steers a constant comp****...
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Another possibility is
a rhumb line west and
south of the
islands extending north-northwest and south-southeast. All
rhumb lines reach both
poles by...
