You are conducting trials to determine the...

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You are conducting trials to determine the maneuvering characteristics of your vessel. While making a turn you take the ranges and bearings of an isolated light. The results are shown in illustration D034DG below. What is the transfer for a turn of 75°?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Definition of transfer in a turning circle trial (distance measured perpendicular to the original course when the ship has changed a specified number of degrees of heading). • Using range and bearing to a fixed light to plot your own ship’s positions on a maneuvering board or plotting sheet. • Finding the point on the plotted track where the heading change equals 75° from the original heading and measuring the perpendicular distance from the original track at that point.

💭 Think About

• What was your initial heading, and what heading corresponds to a 75° change from that? Which two recorded headings in the table does that 75°-change heading fall between? • After you plot each position from the range and bearing to the light, how do you draw your original track line, and how do you locate the position where your heading has changed 75° along the curve? • Once you have that point, what is the correct way to measure the transfer: along the original course line, along the ship’s curved track, or at right angles to the original course? What does that look like on your plot?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be sure you are measuring from the original track line, not from the light or from a later heading line. • Confirm that the heading you use for the 75° change is correctly interpolated between the two tabulated headings that bracket it. • When you measure distance, double‑check the scale on your plotting sheet so that your yards/meters line up with the answer choices.