cockdat or **** hat is it a compass fix
2006-12-13 09:30:08 · 7 answers · asked by huw 4x4 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
A "cocked hat", in nautical terms, results when you take bearings on three different objects, and lay them out on your chart.
It's very unlikely that all three bearing lines will intersect at precisely the same point (don't let anyone tell you that navigation is an exact science :-)... so you'll get a small triangle on the chart.
The lines extending from the corners of the triangle give it the appearance of the old-fashioned tricorne hat.. hence the name.
(Although it's worth noting that the original "Cocked hat" headgear was a bicorne... with only two "points" - sailors are notorious for their freedom with the language :-)
Your position is "somewhere in the cocked hat"... optimistically, at the center... and the skill lies in making the hat as small as possible.... reducing the range of error, in other words.
Here's a good illustration of what I mean...
http://www.ukdivers.net/images/cn3.gif
2006-12-14 02:40:54 · answer #1 · answered by IanP 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Cocked hat is a style of formal headgear, or hat, worn by certain civilian, military and naval officials from the mid-19th Century until the beginning of World War II, and occasionally thereafter
2006-12-13 17:34:16 · answer #2 · answered by stone 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The cocked hat was the standard revolutionary hat worn by sailors.
2006-12-14 08:44:38 · answer #3 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2014-12-02 22:40:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was ready to give you the full explanation but (IanP) has got it all correct.
2006-12-14 12:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is type,of hat worn at at certian angle worn by saliors
2006-12-14 09:12:22 · answer #6 · answered by lake living 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
not got a clue like to know me self . cos right now i think this is a weird Q
2006-12-13 17:40:18 · answer #7 · answered by C 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋