Vocab
What is a berth?
What are the "Roaring Forties"?
Powerful winds that blow between latitudes 40 and 50 degrees.
Who wrote the book?
Jean Lee Latham
What word means a deep, pensive sadness?
Melancholy
How to measure distance to the north or south of the equator
Latitude
What tool did Nat use to navigate?
Sextant
If I'm looking for a celestial body, where should I look?
the sky
How to measure distance east or west of the prime meridian
Longitude
Double Jeopardy!!
Summarize the book in 3 sentences.
What is a logbook?
A daily record of events on a ship
What does Nat publish at the end?
American Practical Navigator
Explain the phrase "Sailing by ash breeze"
When a ship is becalmed due to lack of wind, sailors break out their oars and row a boat ahead to tow the ship. Oars are made of ash, white ash, so sailing by ash breeze means getting ahead by one’s own get-up-and-get. "Pull up by your bootstraps"
Monsoon:umbrella
Monsoon: sunglasses
Monsoon:bug spray
Umbrella. But probably worse.
Explain why Nat's book is so important
Much safer navigation, preventing countless deaths from shipwrecks
Explain the process used to measure the speed a ship traveled in the 18th century
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