As the breeze was blowing directly up the rhumb line from astern, the idea was to jibe downwind for maximum speed.
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On a North-South passage the rhumb line course coincides with a great circle, as it does on an East-West passage along the equator.
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Others say one should face the direction along a rhumb line path to Jerusalem, which would not require an alteration of compass direction.
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If the difference in longitude between the cities is significant, then the rhumb line is " not " the shortest course between them.
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In other words, a great circle is locally " straight " with zero geodesic curvature, whereas a rhumb line has non-zero geodesic curvature.
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Such maps would necessarily have been in the Mercator projection therefore not all old maps would have been capable of showing rhumb line markings.
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Meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude provide special cases of the rhumb line, where their angles of intersection are respectively 0?and 90?
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:: I don't see how you can interpret the original question as anything but a request for constant bearing ( rhumb line angle ).
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The game board and instructions have a nautical theme, based in part on the concept of the rhumb line and historic games played by sailors.
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Over longer distances and / or at higher latitudes the great circle route is significantly shorter than the rhumb line between the same two points.
