The optimum track using the classic method width the help of a personal computer

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to announce the impossibility of applying on board the classic method for finding the optimum track depending on wave predictions for the ocean in the following 5 days. This method is the only one intended to be used by mariners on board a ship. Using 120 hours wave prediction the authors consider that the amount of calculations to find the optimum track is so extensive that the method is impracticable without the help of a personal computer. It has been developed one computer program that allows a successful solution to the problem.