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  2. Sailing Directions - Wikipedia

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    Sailing Directions contain information on countries, navigational hazards, buoyage, pilotage, regulations, anchorages and port facilities, seasonal currents, ice and climatic conditions. Diagrams and photos are included to help identifying places through textual description during coastal navigation and to support the passage planning stage.

  3. Point of sail - Wikipedia

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    For many sailing craft 45° on either side of the wind is a no-go zone, where a sail is unable to mobilize power from the wind. Sailing on a course as close to the wind as possible—approximately 45°—is termed beating, a point of sail when the sails are close-hauled. At 90° off the wind, a craft is on a beam reach.

  4. Distances Between Ports - Wikipedia

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    The front cover of Distances Between Ports. Distances Between Ports (PUB 151) is a publication that lists the distances between major ports. Reciprocal distances between two ports may differ due to the different routes of currents and climatic conditions chosen.

  5. Antoine de Saint Exupery-class container ship - Wikipedia

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    The Antoine de Saint-Exupéry class is a series of three container ships built for CMA CGM. The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of 20,954 TEU. [1] The ships were built by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines.

  6. Maritime transport - Wikipedia

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    A cargo ship sailing from a European port to a US one will typically take 10–12 days depending on water currents and other factors. [6] In order to make container ship transport more economical, ship operators sometimes reduce cruising speed, thereby increasing transit time, to reduce fuel consumption, a strategy referred to as " slow steaming ".

  7. Rhumbline network - Wikipedia

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    To calculate on a portolan chart the course to follow from a point of origin to a point of destination, one should transfer — using a parallel rule — the "line of course" drawn from the point of origin to the point of destination, on top of the windrose line on the compass rose closest to the ship's position, obtaining on it the theoretical course to be followed when sailing towards the ...

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  9. Tacking (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind, turns its bow toward and through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side of the boat to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. [1]