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In practice, though, the winning route is usually somewhere between the great circle and the rhumb line.

Would they recognize familiar territory among its rhumb lines and wind roses?

From that corner, emanate a series of compass rhumb lines.

Most take the rhumb line, the most direct route from Chicago to the island up the middle of the lake.

(c) On what chart does the rhumb line appear as a straight line?

The final part of the work contained a treatise inspired by Harriot on rhumb lines.

Several point-scoring rhumb line combinations may be completed at one time with a single nugget.

The expression "sailing on a rhumb" was used in the 16th-19th centuries to indicate a particular compass heading.

These charts showed coastline with rhumb lines connecting ports.

Over longer distances and/or at higher latitudes the great circle route is significantly shorter than the rhumb line between the same two points.

It allowed a helmsman to keep a rough check of the time sailed on each rhumb of the wind.

They are utterly bewitched by the prospect of continuing along one rhumb line until it reaches its farthest point.

It was released several times, being reworked for their first full album, The Rhumb Line, in 2008.

If there is a tide flowing, to avoid being swept downtide you can take a transit on the next mark to steer the rhumb line.

Others say one should face the direction along a rhumb line path to Jerusalem, which would not require an alteration of compass direction.

The distinction between rhumb (sailing) distance and great circle (true) distance was clearly understood by Mercator.

Alternatively a rhumb line course could be flown on the Croydon-Chelsfield-Lympne route.

The gap between the curves of an Archimedean spiral (right picture) remains constant as the radius changes and hence is not a rhumb line.

Known as "Portolan charts", these maps are characterized by extremely accurate coastlines with criss-crossing rhumb lines.

In navigation, departure is the distance made good in an east--west direction when going from one place to another (for example, along a rhumb line).

Gerardus Mercator made a practical map of the world, using the projection named after him which conveniently makes navigation rhumb lines straight.

As the breeze was blowing directly up the rhumb line from astern, the idea was to jibe downwind for maximum speed.

Since the meridians have converged a little the line will bend up a little generating a rhumb which describes a spiral on the sphere.

The Rhumb Line game board consists of a compass rose with 32 marked points with a score-keeping "ladder" on either end.

The principal feature of the projection is that Rhumb lines, sailing courses at a constant bearing, are mapped to straight lines on the map.