Mercator sailing


nounNavigation.
  1. sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.

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How to use Mercator sailing in a sentence

  • Say distance is 1600 miles measured by dividers or secured by Mercator sailing Method.

    Lectures in Navigation | Ernest Gallaudet Draper
  • Also, one of the examples of Mercator sailing to be done by both the Inspection and Logarithmic method.

    Lectures in Navigation | Ernest Gallaudet Draper
  • If oblique, it is solved by middle latitude, or Mercator sailing.

    The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth