DEAD RECKONING: A plot of courses steered and distances travelled through the water.
DEADHEAD: A log or heavy timber floating nearly vertical, with little of it's bulk showing above the surface.
dead reckoning - A method of determining position by making an educated guess based on last known position, speed and currents.
deadlight - Fixed ports that do not open, placed in the deck or cabin to admit light.
dead reckoning
A navigation method of determining position by making an estimate based on last known position, speed and currents.
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Dead Reckoning
The navigational art of determining your position based on course steered and speed rather than through obtaining a position from other means. ( Using a chart or electronic device)
Deck ...
Dead ReckoningA plot of courses steered and distances traveled through the water.
DeckA permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part of a ship serving as a floor.
DisplacementThe weight of water displaced by a floating vessel.
Dead reckoning The position found by calculation from the course steered and the distance run over time.
Deadweight Total weight of vessel, also known as displacement.
Deckhead Underside of a deck. The roof of a ships cabin.
Dead Reckoning - Abbreviation of Deduced Reckoning. A navigational method of determining a vessel's location.
Dead Reckoning:
The process of plotting a theoretical position or future position based on advancing from a known position using speed, time, and course, without aid of objects on land, of sights, etc.
DEAD RECKONING-Determining a vessel's position by the course sailed and the distance covered.
DINGHY-A small rowboat that sometimes is rigged with a sail. Also called tender or dink.
DOUSE-To take in or lower a sail.
Dead Reckoning
In weather when navigating officers cannot see the sun or stars they estimate the ship's position by the distance traveled, as shown by the log, etc.; this is called "dead reckoning".
Deadlights ...
Dead Reckoning - Determining your position by distance and course run
Dead Reckoning (DR) - Boat’s location is determined by direction and distance from a previous know location, used to be called “Deduced Reckoning' ...
Dead reckoning, dead-reckoning plot. See navigate and position.
draft, dr., draw ...
Dead Reckoning - also Ded Reckoning. Sometimes believed to be an abbreviation of Deduced Reckoning
Deck - A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part thereof.
dead reckoning: the process of predicting and fixing position by course, speed, and distance run. deadrise: the angle at which the bottom rises from where it joins the keep to the turn of the bilge, or chine.
A position based on dead reckoning estimations of a boat's position using estimated speed, currents, and the last known position (fix) of the boat.
Eye of the Wind
The direction that the wind is blowing from.
DR -- dead reckoning, deduced reckoning; your position based on speed, direction, and time
dorado -- a dolphinfish (misnomer), same as mahi mahi
double ender -- boat with a pointed bow and stern ...
Glass permanently set in a cabin or deck to admit light below dead reckoning (DR) Determining a boat's position by noting the course sailed, boat speed, and the distance covered dead men Neglected, ...
Dead reckoning - Determining your position by distance and course run
Displacement Hull - boat meant to move through the water,
not skim over it.
Draft - least depth of water needed to allow a boat to clear the bottom.
Dead reckoning-A calculation of determining position by using course speed last known position
DEADEYE A block with three hole in use to receive the laniard of a shroud or a stay to adjust tension.
deadhead -- a floating log ...
Dead Reckoning - The process of determining the position of a vessel at any instant by applying to the last well-determined position (point of departure or subsequent fix) the run that has since been made, ...
"Now," said our captain, coming on the poop after he had worked up his dead reckoning at noontime, "you see all those ships dead to leeward -- well they ought to be to windward of us unless all the books on navigation are wrong.
DEAD RECKONING - Navigating
DECK - A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part thereof.
DINGHY - A small open boat. A dinghy is often used as a tender for a larger craft.
Keep track of a position either by dead reckoning or with a GPS. Even in the easiest cruising grounds like the BVI's, ...
The other common use of the speed-time-distance formula is to determine a position based upon distance traveled and direction. This is called dead reckoning. The distance traveled is determined by speed multiplied by the time traveled.
By this time you'll be an experienced sailor capable of dealing with difficult situations like current and wind. You'll also be skilled at dead reckoning techniques, chart reading and deteriming fixes (your position).
 See also: Boat, Navigation, Light, Current, Point
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