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¿Qué es el viento relativo?What is relative wind (viento relativo) aboard a vessel?
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Correct answer: a) The wind generated by the forward motion of the vessel.
Why it is correct
Relative wind (headway wind) is the airflow created purely by the vessel’s own movement through calm air: its speed equals boat speed and its direction is dead ahead.
Why the others are not
- b) The vector sum of true and relative wind is the apparent wind.
- c) When the vessel is stopped, what is felt is the true wind.
- d) The Beaufort scale refers to the true wind.
How to work it out in the exam
- Relative wind = the wind created solely by the boat’s headway.
Where this question comes from
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2020 · Convocatoria de diciembre · PER Test 1 · question 33 Official paper · Official answer key
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