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Navigation A — Coastal — question 42

At 08:00 your vessel is due west of the west cardinal buoy at FROG ISLANDS, and the range of the buoy at that time was 1 mile. True course (TC) 054°, log speed 3.5 knots (SOW). At 09:00 a true bearing of Akko lighthouse was 097°, and the range of the lighthouse at that time was 1 mile. Find:

  1. The set of the current. 085°
  2. The drift of the current. 1.9 knots
  3. The course over the ground (COG). 066°
  4. The speed over the ground (SOG). 5.2 knots

The question is solved on chart 1000. On the site it comes with the relevant sections of the chart.