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You are steering a southerly course, and you note that the chart predicts an easterly current. Without considering wind, how may you allow for the set?

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You are steering a southerly course, and you note that the chart predicts an easterly current. Without considering wind, how may you allow for the set?

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🔍 Key Concepts

• Set and drift of a current and how they affect your course over ground • The difference between heading (where the bow points) and track (actual path over the bottom) • What an easterly current means in terms of the direction the water is flowing

💭 Think About

• If you are steering due south and the water is moving toward the east, in which direction will your actual track over the ground be bent? • To keep your course over ground exactly southerly, would you need to aim your bow slightly to the east or slightly to the west? Why? • Does changing speed alone change the direction in which the current pushes you, or only how long you are exposed to it?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear that an easterly current means the water is flowing toward the east, not from the east • Visualize or sketch a vector diagram: your intended course vector (south) plus the current vector (toward the east) • Check whether the correct correction is to put the bow into the current or away from it to cancel the sideways set

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Question 1 of 20

You are steering a southerly course, and you note that the chart predicts an easterly current. Without considering wind, how may you allow for the set?

Decrease your speed

Head your vessel slightly to the left

Increase your speed

Head your vessel slightly to the right

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Question 1 / 2066636ee928f7522a1c51a1f1

Question 1 of 2066636ee928f7522a1c51a1f1

You are steering a southerly course, and you note that the chart predicts an easterly current. Without considering wind, how may you allow for the set?

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You are steering a southerly course, and you note that the chart predicts an easterly current. Without considering wind, how may you allow for the set?

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