Usa "rhumb" in una frase

1. Attaining a white heat in the Gulf of Mexico, it heads north up the American coast, advances as far as Newfoundland, swerves away under the thrust of a cold current from the Davis Strait, and resumes its ocean course by going along a great circle of the earth on a rhumb line; it then divides into two arms near the 43rd parallel; one, helped by the northeast trade winds, returns to the Bay of Biscay and the Azores; the other washes the shores of Ireland and Norway with lukewarm

2. This was the sort of thing Samantha had found beauty in--guillotined parking meters, psoriatic postboxes, cars missing windows and wheels, the fact that behind the rhumb face New York turned to the world, nothing was quite in kilter--but it was hard to muster an aesthetic appreciation when the daytime high was 17 degrees Fahrenheit