{"id":115,"date":"2020-11-23T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?p=115"},"modified":"2020-11-23T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T17:08:57","slug":"relative-bearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/2020\/11\/23\/relative-bearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative bearings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bearings can also be expressed in relative terms, ie bearings relative to the ship\u2019s fore and aft centreline.<\/p>\n

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  1. All bearings on the port side will be prefaced with the word \u201cred\u201d and those to starboard, with the word \u201cgreen\u201d. They will be followed by the angle measured from the bow, ie a ship is situated 45\u00b0 on the starboard bow will be reported as \u201cgreen 45\u201d.<\/li>\n
  2. The above example could also be reported as \u201c45\u00b0 on our starboard bow\u201d. A vessel directly ahead of us would be reported as \u201cdead ahead\u201d. A vessel 90\u00b0 on our port side would be reported as \u201con our port beam\u201d. A vessel 120\u00b0 on our starboard side would be reported as \u201con our starboard quarter\u201d.<\/li>\n
  3. A third method of using relative bearings is the use of \u201cpoints\u201d. As an example, if a vessel is 45\u00b0 on our port bow, it would be reported as \u201cfour points on our port bow\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Bearings can also be expressed in relative terms, ie bearings relative to the ship\u2019s fore and aft centreline. All bearings on the port side will be prefaced with the word \u201cred\u201d and those to starboard, with the word \u201cgreen\u201d. They will be followed by the angle measured from the bow, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-navigation","category-10-1-4-measurement-of-direction","category-10-1-4-3-relative-bearings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}