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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.
2401. Rhumb Lines and Great Circles. The principal advantage of a rhumb line is that it maintains constant true direction. A ship following the rhumb line between two places does not change its true course. A rhumb line makes the same angle with all meridians it crosses and appears as a straight line on a Mercator chart.
The simplest way for you to understand the concept of a Great Circle route is to take a piec e of string to a globe. If you put one end at the origin and the other at the destination and held it straight, paral lel with the equator, you will get one distance known as the ‘ Rhumb Line ’.
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...
27 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.
Keywords: loxodrome (rhumb-line sailing), plane (or middle latitude) sailing, Mercator triangle (Mercator sailing) 1. Introduction Navigation along loxodrome, quite often named as mathematical dead reckoning, consists in calculating coordinates of the vessel’s position or course and the distance
