Sentence examples for sailing charts from inspiring English sources

Sailing charts, used for offshore navigation, show a generalized shoreline, only offshore soundings, and are at a scale between 1 600,000 and 1 5,000,000.

Much of his earliest as well as latest mathematical work bore on questions of navigation, including such issues as the construction of rhumb lines (or loxodromes) on sailing charts.

Hydrographic charts are constructed on widely different scales; they range from ocean sailing charts drawn to a small scale of 1 5,000,000 (where 1 inch on the map represents 79 miles; or 1 cm = 50 km) to harbour charts, which are drawn to a scale of 1 50,000 (1 inch to 0.8 mile) or larger.

Nautical charts are constructed on widely different scales and can be generally classified as follows: ocean sailing charts are small-scale charts, 1 5,000,000 or smaller, used for planning long voyages or marking the daily progress of a ship.

The navigator uses them to lay out a track between ports perhaps thousands of miles apart and then transfers the latitudes corresponding, for example, to each 5° of longitude, to his ocean sailing chart.

From 2 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m., passengers will help catch, observe and release marine creatures and even help work the ship, hoisting sails, charting course and taking turns at the wheel.

Swisher's camaraderie factor could sail off the charts if this keeps up.

He often sailed using zodiacal charts — according to "Good Night, Sweet Prince," a biography by his friend Gene Fowler, he was a devotee of astrology and had "an inborn trend toward mysticism".

The charts, soundings, and sailing directions compiled during the expedition were invaluable to later navigators, but the problems encountered by all the detachments owing to ice led to the conclusion in Russian government circles that the concept of a navigable Northeast Passage was totally impracticable.

Memorize chart symbols and the nautical chart legend before departing so you aren't learning how to read a chart when you are sailing.

Just as much of a factor, though, is Japan's current account, which is sailing closer and closer to the red (see chart).