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From: Wil Bailey
Date: 2012 Feb 14, 07:20 +0000
Anyway, Wikipedia has a good entry here for those enthralled with points notation in medieval Italianate 'lingua franca' patois.
Wil
Kinch, you wrote:
"Think maybe you had better look at that one again... :-)"Oops. Thanks! I meant the other "east" --the one that starts with a "w". :)
Derrick Young, you wrote:
" If you don’t mind, I will paraphrase and use in my next class."Please do. I posted it in the hope that it might be useful to someone else. This is one of those things that professional mariners are supposed to memorize by rote. But for other students, that's not a great option. And besides, it's much easier to assemble these "by" directions that many people imagine. Myself, I always had to look them up until I came up with this 'system'.
Jaap, Greg, and others, yes, the proper name for 11.25 degrees in English is a compass "point". The reason I use the expression "and a bit" is because "b for bit" helps the memory. If you have students who take things more seriously, you can do the same thing substituting "and a point towards" for "by". To find NbE, look due North and then turn a point towards East.
-FER
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