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kurskoble
(vb): "Kobbel Cours".
Sammenregningen af flere forskellige kurser og udsejlede distancer til et resulterende resultat.
Proces anvendt på sejlskibe, hvor man på vagten noterede de fulgte kurser og den på hver kurs udsejlede distance for efter vagten ved fx vektorregning eller trekantberegning at finde hele vagtens resulterende kurs og distance, som så kunne udsættes i søkort og indføres i dagbogen.
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"traverse sailing. A method of determining the equivalent course and distance made good by a craft following a track consisting of a series of rhumb lines. The solution is usually made by means of traverse tables." [BOW net]

"Traverse Sailing. The case in plane sailing, where the ship makes several courses in succession, the track being zigzag, and the directions of its several parts 'traversing', or lying more or less athwart each other. For all these actual courses and distances run on each, a single equivalent imaginary course and distance may be found which the ship would have described had she sailed direct for the place of destination. Finding this course is called 'Working a Traverse'." [Harbord 1st edt. 1863]
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