However the inconvenience of having to continuously change bearings while travelling a great circle route makes " rhumb line navigation " appealing in certain instances.
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Navigator Bob Hale, from New York, chose a route that took Boomerang about 48 miles west of the rhumb line between the start and finish lines.
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A rhumb line can be contrasted with a great circle, which is the path of shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.
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To offer up the luxury of rectilinear rhumb lines, Mercator's projection had to create immense distortions in the way parts of Earth appeared on the chart.
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For simplicity, Moncrieff and Hood had planned to fly a rhumb line course, intending to make landfall at Farewell Spit at the western entrance to Cook Strait.
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The lines are not true rhumb lines in the modern sense, since these can only be drawn on modern map projections and not on 13th century charts.
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They were close to true rhumb lines in the Mediterranean area but highly inaccurate in the Teixeira planisphere and the other planispheres drawn in any pre-Mercator projection.
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Pedro Nunes, one of the first Europeans to apply mathematics to cartography, discovered the concept of rhumb lines, later applied to the Mercator projection, which, in 1569, revolutionized cartography.
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""'Rhumb Line " "'is a two-player abstract strategy board game by Martin H . Samuel, played with glass pieces on mousepad-type material, using placement and point accumulation to win.
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The line forms a perfect rhumb line, so that wherever an observer stands on the line between Wandlebury and Portingbury, the North Star is always at the same oblique angle.
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