When navigating a course of 255 degrees T at 14 knots, how will changing course at 2126 to pass a lighthouse abeam affect your ETA?

To evaluate how changing course at 2126 to pass a lighthouse abeam affects your ETA, it's important to understand how this change influences your speed and route.

Navigating a course of 255 degrees True at a speed of 14 knots means you are traveling a specific distance over time. If you adjust your course to pass the lighthouse abeam at the designated time, you're essentially altering the line of travel and possibly the distance you need to cover before returning to your original course or continuing to your destination.

Given the change in course, the ETA could potentially be altered because the new bearing might either shorten or lengthen the distance you need to traverse to arrive at your destination or pass the lighthouse at an optimal distance.

Choosing an ETA of 2200 hours reflects a calculated time adjustment based on the new course distance and speed while considering the present time of 2126 hours. This likely indicates that after the change in course, you will arrive at your next waypoint, whether that be the lighthouse or a subsequent navigational point, by 2200 hours.

The calculation operates under certain assumptions about the distance to the lighthouse and the exact bearing changes, but logically, the new ETA provides a reasonable approximation based on standard navigation practices. This choice demonstrates an understanding