Our boat motor used as the sails, and then takes advantage of the laminar wind. In practice we do not walk without wind. Obviously depending on the direction in which it arrives the wind, compared to where we will have a different name and characteristics.
The compass rose is a graphical representation of wind direction and 8 is that we can meet sailing in the Mediterranean and that affect our boat from north-northeast: Tramontana (N) , or Grecale Bora (NE), East (E), Scirocco (SE), Ostro or South (S), Libeccio (SW), (W) and Mistral (NW).
The classic shape of a compass rose that dates back to the Maritime Republics, and the introduction of the compass, and is consists of a circle divided into degrees, which surrounds a star to sixteen (sometimes 32) points overlay each other like the petals of a rose at the center of the circle imagine there is an observer while the tips of the star indicate the main direction of winds and their angular distance from true north.
The earliest records date back to the compass rose Homeric poems, for the Greeks, the first rose of the winds used were four peaks corresponding to the four cardinal points which then increase to eight who are the main winds. Some of Amalfi were to combine with the compass rose of the winds, spread to neighboring countries, according to other versions, however, the identification of the winds to be given in Rose, took place on the Greek island of Zakynthos, just as on that locations at various times of the year the winds blew known.
good to remember the winds and their directions, just imagine being on Malta, in fact, from this position was more or less in the center and each takes the wind direction shown by the wind rose .
course depending the place where we will be the predominance of a wind over another, depending on whether the site is protected by mountains, valleys, or by anything. Using the compass and the compass which we can see the wind blowing in our direction.
Fair winds to all!
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