sailing routes
Charted ocean passages
Sailing routes are established paths across bodies of water that ships follow, traditionally determined by prevailing winds, ocean currents, and safe passage around hazards.
Before steam power, these routes dictated global trade and exploration: The clipper ships followed sailing routes that caught the trade winds.
Modern usage extends to recreational boating: We planned our sailing route through the Caribbean islands.
- circumnavigationComplete journey around something
- shipping lanesDesignated ocean travel paths
- sea lanesDesignated ocean passages
- nautical chartMap for marine navigation
- portsShip berths or device jacks
transoceanic · open water · nautical miles · archipelago · ferry crossings · trade winds · dead reckoning · great circle · coastline · Aegean Sea · estuary · compass rose · fishing zones · Adriatic Sea · Ionian Sea · tacking · harbors · latitude
- sailingsailboat, sailing, sails, sailboats, catamaran
- navigationcompass, compass rose, signs, charts, navbar
- trade routessilk road, Silk Road, cargo routes, merchant routes, commercial routes
- marine navigationnautical charts, marine charts, buoys, compass, markers
- nautical navigationnautical charts, navigation charts, marine charts, shipping routes, sea charts
- BC Nauticalnautical charts, navigation aids, buoys, anchorages, waypoints
sailing routesoverland routes
Paths across terrain
caravan routes · highway systems · road networks · rail routes · railway lines