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OpenSeaMap is a software project collecting freely usable nautical information and geospatial data to create a worldwide nautical chart.This chart is available on the OpenSeaMap website, and can also be downloaded for use as an electronic chart for offline applications.
The success of the work enabled the author to propose a new illustrated album project to his editor, Brigitte Ventrillon of Casterman Publishing House: an atlas of twenty-six maps corresponding to the twenty-six letters of the alphabet to describe a world in its entirety, accompanied by documentary plates depicting the peoples, fauna, and flora ...
Charts are maps of the areas to be navigated with details specific to the marine environment. Computing aids: used in the necessary mathematical calculations. Today electronic computers or calculators are used. Other traditional aids used included tables (trigonometric, logarithms, etc.) and slide rules.
Ship masters would therefore go as far south as they dared, weighing the risk of ice against a fast passage. [5] The clipper ships bound for Australia and New Zealand would call at a variety of ports. A ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, for example, would cover around 13,750 miles (22,130
Before the advent of nautical charts in the 14th century, navigation at sea relied on the accumulated knowledge of navigators and pilots.Plotting a course at sea required knowing the direction and distance between point A and point B. Knowledge of where places lay relative to each other was acquired by mariners during their long experience at sea.
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
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"The Ales Stenar, known in English as the Ale's Stones, is an ancient megalithic monument of Sweden. The stones are outlining a ship. Here we show the well-known alignment of this ship along the sunset direction on summer solstice. We propose also alignments of the stones along the northern possible moonset on major and minor lunar standstills.