Mercator sailing

noun

, Navigation.

sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.

Say distance is 1600 miles measured by dividers or secured by Mercator Sailing Method.

Also, one of the examples of Mercator sailing to be done by both the Inspection and Logarithmic method.

If oblique, it is solved by middle latitude, or Mercator sailing.

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