Boat Lab

A demonstration of relative motion involving moving water and boats

Uh-oh... we ran out of river!

This is what you get for setting a ridiculously large angle to the boat. You can wait it out: the calculation will eventually finish, but you're probably better off refreshing the page.

Boat
Boat speed
River speed
River width

Answer

   

Note: Target/boat may go off-screen; to specify upstream angles, use negative values