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Short distance sailing is a term which is applied to sailing along a rhumb-line for distances less than 600 nautical miles. From the formulas derived above, the following are used extensively in short distance sailing:
The rhumb line and great circle may intersect each other, and if the points are equal distances on each side of the equator, the intersection takes place at the equator.
The formulas enable to solve the tasks with a use of electronic calculator and application of traditional methods on plane and sphere, and they also take the Earth’s ellipsoidal shape into consideration. Keywords: loxodrome (rhumb-line sailing), plane (or middle latitude) sailing, Mercator triangle (Mercator sailing) 1. Introduction
Using two different examples, this video shows how to calculate the course and distance between two positions; and how to calculate the position arrived if d...
In the examples presented in Table 1, Greenwich meridian is taken as the departure longitude x 0 O T, whilst θ I represents the rhumb line course connecting the intersection point I with the vertex V. The distance (D TLV) is based on rhumb-line T T sailing to the vertex latitude then due east (or west) along the parallel to the vertex (Han-Fei ...
20 cze 2024 · In this paper, equations are established to solve problems of Rhumb Line Sailing (RLS) on an oblate spheroid. Solutions are provided for both the inverse problem and the direct problem, thereby providing a complete solution to RLS.
The formulas for determining a ship’s dead-reckoned position, given an initial known location, the vessel’s course and speed, and the time elapsed, are referred to as the sailing formulas....
