well explained, but many tutors never seem to explain the mile markings down the side of the chart or tidal diamonds to get the rough direction and rate. I only mention this as is the main question that comes up in the boat club from people just starting to sail.
Shouldn't you have measured your water track as 6NM from the tidal point to the ground track, rather than just joining the tidal point to 6NM from starting point along the ground track? Doesn't make much difference on this flow direction, but if tide was running at 180 for example, this would make a big difference!
I am in the process of going for my Day Skipper cert. Can you please explain how you arbitrarily obtained a wind speed that automatically turned into a 10deg compass variation. Taking tide into consideration when setting course to steer you calculated, then just chucked into the calculation a number from nowhere. Or have i missed something?
I have the same question.how did you decide that wind speed affect on the course by 10 deg?
2 года назад
@@serdarsenol7307 you calculate leeway from the line that your boat leaves on the water, i.e. you see a line on the water that can be 3 degrees from the centerline of the boat, Then you add those 3 degrees to your True course.
