Chart Navigation & Plotting · Sailings — Traverse
Traverse sailing is best described as the technique used to:
- AResolve a series of courses and distances into one equivalent course and distance made good✓ Correct
- BConvert true course to compass course
- CFind the height of tide at an intermediate time
- DReduce a celestial sight
Explanation
Traverse sailing sums the northings/southings and eastings/westings of several legs, then combines the net dLat and net departure into a single equivalent course and distance — the basis of a day's-run computation.
Authority: Bowditch (Pub. No. 9), traverse sailing
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