 In the modern nomenclature, the "traverse" is the "crooked path made by a ship when she sails in several successive directions" and "resolving the traverse" is "the method of finding a single course and distance which would bring a ship to the same place as two or more courses and distances".In marteloio language, when "resolving the traverse", the known information given is the "actual course" and the "ritorno", while the unknowns are the "intended bearing" and "total avanzo".Traverse tables use three values for each of the crooked course segments – the "Distance" (Dist.