From your 0830 position, you wish to make...

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From your 0830 position, you wish to make good 097°T. There is no current, but a southerly wind is producing 4° leeway. What course should you steer per standard magnetic compass in order to make good your true course?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Leeway caused by a southerly wind (wind FROM the south) and whether it pushes your actual track to the north or to the south of your heading • How to decide if you must steer into the wind or away from the wind to make good your desired true course • The step-by-step conversion sequence: True → Magnetic → Compass → Standard Compass (psc), using variation and deviation/compass error given elsewhere in the problem

💭 Think About

• Sketch your desired track 097°T on a simple compass rose, then sketch the wind FROM the south; which side of your track will the wind tend to push your vessel toward? • If your leeway is 4°, should your heading be 4° more northerly or 4° more southerly than the desired track to end up on 097°T? Think: do you point into or away from leeway? • Once you have the correct true course to steer, carefully walk it through the corrections to get to per standard compass. Ask yourself at each step: am I adding or subtracting, based on the sign (E/W) of variation and deviation/compass error in the problem setup?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear on what southerly wind means: wind is blowing from the south toward the north, so leeway is downwind • Confirm whether leeway is applied to the course steered or to the track made good; then adjust your true course accordingly by 4° in the correct direction • Double-check that your final answer is in per standard compass (psc), not in true or magnetic, and that you only used the given variation and deviation/compass error from the problem setup