Rhumb in a sentence as a noun

We can look at the stars and a compass both of which make rhumb lines far more useful.

"As you point out, the importance of rhumb lines comes from the fact that..." -- there shouldnt' be a not there.

"Where are the rattlesnakes Simon - are they in the rhumba, crash or knot table?

In particular, note that along a rhumb line one can never reach the north or south pole.

Indeed, rhumb lines are dependent on your choice of poles, which the actual shortest course clearly cannot be!

Your will arrive to your destination by a rhumb line [1], which is only slightly less efficient than a great circle.

I was about to correct you sand say "no, they'd follow a rhumb line", but then I looked it up and realized they're two terms for the same thing.

"We’d be driving along and yukking it up and I’d pop in Congolese rhumba icon Papa Wembe’s “Awa Y’okeyi” and everyone would be patient for a couple of beats.

Rhumb definitions

noun

a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction

See also: loxodrome