The rhumb-line distance to Bermuda is 635 miles, but since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675.
Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles .
Hood sailed a shorter rhumb-line course, missed De Grasse, saw nothing amiss at the Chesapeake and went on to New York.
Tunes on the Town THURSDAY, Feb. 6 Dave Sag's Blues Party, 8 to 11 p.m., The Rhumb Line, 41 Railroad Ave., Gloucester. DJ Slipwax, 9 p.m. to close, Minglewood Tavern, 25 Rogers St., Gloucester. Dance party. FRIDAY, Feb. 7 Pete Seeger sing-along, 7 p.m., Lanesville Co
Feb. 6, 2014 - Gloucester Daily Times