Leeway divergence is the same for all objects if the wind stays consistent.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Sometimes
• D. Not enough data

Answer: (B)

Leeway is the wind-driven motion of a drifting object relative to the water, and it depends on how the object interacts with the wind and the water. The amount and direction of that wind-driven motion aren’t the same for every object because shapes, sizes, buoyancy, surface area exposed above the water, and drag differ. A large, buoyant object with a lot of above-water area will catch more wind and drift at a different angle than a compact, heavily submerged object. Even with a steady wind, these differences cause the objects to move along different paths and at different rates, so the spread of possible positions (leeway divergence) grows differently for each object. That variability is why leeway divergence isn’t uniform across all objects.