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Mercator sailing

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noun

Navigation.

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

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Spend the rest of the period in getting times from the N. A., getting true altitudes from observed altitudes, working examples in Mercator sailing, etc.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

Also, one of the examples of Mercator sailing to be done by both the Inspection and Logarithmic method.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

If oblique, it is solved by middle latitude, or Mercator sailing.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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