Bart Senior wrote:
Describe a "Log Line"?
How is a Log Line used?
How far apart were the knots in the original Log Line?
Why was this distance later changed?
What is the modern spacing of knots on a Log Line?
Why would navigators want to overestimate their speed?
This isn't seamanship it's nautical trivia:
http://www.twogreens.com/wakeup/lifeatsea/logline.htm