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The Rhumb line is usually longer than GC distance but it will get you to same destination without making any other course change after you find and follow the Rhumb line path. I decided to give it a try and completely deviated from my flight path after I was cleared for R002.
Place the stones, one at a time, building on those already on the board to complete &/or block new point-winning rhumb lines. As the game progresses, several point combinations may be completed with a single turn.
Any path that you enter after "t:r" is displayed and calculated as a rhumb line instead of a great circle path. I have always used www.madinstro.net/sundry/navigation/rhumb_line.html, but I think that I will now switch to gcmap.com, which I've always used for everything else.
Rhumb Line, original 2-player strategy game of observation and placement on a compass rose board. Officer yellow and Sailor blue stones are placed, one at a time, building and/or blocking point-scoring rhumb line combinations.
27 sie 2012 · Rhumb lines and map wars : a social history of the Mercator projection. by. Monmonier, Mark S. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Mercator projection (Cartography), Cartography, Loxodrome, Peters projection (Cartography), Navigation. Publisher. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
Rhumb Line is a sailing race game from Newport to Tortola. This game comes in a tube measuring 20" long with diameter of 2 1/2" and uses a laminated map for a playing surface. The object is to race from Newport, Rhode Island to Tortola, British Virgin Islands.
Position stones on the radial lines of degrees where they intersect the concentric circles in the compass. Place the stones, one at a time, building on those already on the board to complete &/or block new point-winning rhumb lines.
