- 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...
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standard map
projection for
navigation due
to its
property of
representing rhumb lines as
straight lines. When
applied to world maps, the
Mercator projection...
- 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...
- 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)...
-
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...
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everyone to sail the
rhumb (direct) line. Of 260 starters,
there were 257 finishers, and all
finished by 4 p.m. Sa****ay, 19
hours ahead of the
usual 11
a.m...
- 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...
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transforms every human on the
planet into stone,
genius boy
Senku Ishigami emerges from his
petrification into
a "Stone World" and s****s
to rebuild human civilization...
- 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...
