American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy (1914)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment, Logan, George Wood, 1868-1915 · Washington, Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 228
y frombecoming involved in the actual center itself, inasmuch as there is a distinct tendencyon the part of the latter to move away from the equator. For these reasons the moreremote semicircle has been called the dangerous, the less remote the navigable. 486. Maneuvering.—A vessel suspecting the… … steady and increases in force, while the latter falls rapidly, say at a greater rate than0.03 of an inch per hour, the vessel is probably on the track of the storm and in advanceof the center. In this position the proper step (providing, of course, that sea roompermits) is to run, keeping the wind,…
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