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Ocean Currents and wind forces

03-08-12, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by silent marshal

1m/min. Is this too much? Is it too little?

1 meter per minute is 1.44 kilometers, or 2.28 nautical miles per day. After a week's travel with no sighting you would be about 16 nautical miles off course. I was a sailor but not a navigator, so I don't know if that comes close to the reality, but it sounds to me like it needs more.

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