Which navigation error increases as wind loading exceeds the displacement tonnage during 18th-century navigation?

💡 Explanation

Cumulative dead reckoning error increases drastically because leeway results from the vessel being pushed sideways, therefore the estimated position diverges from actuality rather than instrument errors from sextants; chronometer; magnetic variation.

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