Questions tagged [nautical]
For questions relating to maritime navigation or analogous processes.
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Would navigation work if the magnetic poles were located at the equator?
Let's say the magnetic North Pole is and has been located around 0, 0 (off the coast of Africa) for all of human history, and the magnetic South Pole 180 degrees to the east/west. Maybe the Earth's ...
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What would limit the size of a sail-powered sea cargo ship using modern (or near future) technologies, and how big could we go?
Fossil-fuel-powered shipping is obviously much better than old-school sail-powered ships for moving cargo around. But if winds were predictable, fossil fuels rare and solar/nuclear power not an option ...
