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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:
Rhumbline Sailing (RLS ) The proposed formulas for rhumbline sailing calculations on the ellipsoid solve both the direct and the inverse RLS problem. In traditional navigation the navigator is interested only in the inverse RLS problem that solves for the “course to steer” and the “sailing distance” from one location to another.
Calculation of a distance on loxodrome (rhumb line) and course angle (azimuth) between two points with a given geographical coordinates.
Proposals of algorithms for solving Navigation faculty’s problems regarding navigation along rhumb line (loxodrome), for officer trainees and civil students of Faculty of Navigation and Naval Weapons and for deck seamen on operational level, are presented in this paper.
The question we ask affects the range and point in applying the loxodrome (rhumb line) in case the ECDIS equipped with the great circle (great ellipse) approximation algorithms of given accuracy replaces the traditional nautical charts based on Mercator projection.
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...
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....
