2—by G. Verploegh

Extract

The earlier experiments in the weather routing of ships, which in the middle fifties were carried out in the United States of America, have shown that in some instances the combined use of wave-condition charts and extended weather forecasts enabled a ship to follow a more direct route across the ocean without encountering the hazard of a severe storm and a great loss of time, which the shipmaster would have tried to avoid by taking a more southern and generally much longer route.