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Wilfred Darr
Calgary, Canada
Skipper Level II
Status: Sailor
Qualified days: 30
Please help: one of these is wrong…
Posted 2017, Nov 23 05:06
Please help: one of these is wrong, but I can't figure on my own. If you solve for current and course first and add leeway after, as per the given solution it's 6.25Kts, 40°, but if you add for leeway first and add current for course after, as per module 4 practical example, it's 6.5Kts, 42°, and I really don't have enough knowledge at this point to argue one or the other. And I realize that over a 2 hour trip, it's not that significant, but I'd like to be practicing the correct way right off the start. Please help. Thanks.
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Darroch Cahen
Astoria, OR, USA
Skipper Level III
Status: Big Time Sailor
Qualified days: 95
Easterly Wind
Posted 2017, Nov 24 14:59
Dumb Question: An Easterly Wind would be plotted as 090 M ? From the East to the West. Thus, a Standard keel boat heading up wind would be sailing generally on a course 45+ degrees off the wind; ie 045 or 135. Right ?
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