How do ships navigate around hurricanes?

Coast Guard Exam Problem:
You are underway on course 050° True and your maximum speed is 10 knots. The eye of a hurricane bears 100° True and is 90 miles from your position. The hurricane is moving towards 285° True at 19 knots. Which course should you steer at 10 knots to have the maximum distance from the center of the storm?
a. 220° T
b. 227° T
c. 235° T
d. 240° T

[dougfaunt]

I wish there were a book, like your various "Cutterman's...", since I learn better from the printed page, and your approach is the best I've found. BTW, there's such a mboard problem on the Nav General sample exam for 500T OC Mate. It's not just for Unlimited Master.

[darrinmartin]

Very informative and nicely presented. You rock Chris!

[dougfaunt]

Interesting, I've found a maneuvering board problem with exactly the same parameters, but they ask for CPA, not course. This video gives no hints about getting the CPA. CG question number 588.
I could find no question asking for the course, although that's implicit in finding the CPA.

Btw, if you look at the video of the rescue of BOUNTY survivors, you can see me get off the helicopter. I'm the old guy in hi-vis.

[wilfdarr]

Oh man. I would have done (or rather tried to do) it as a distance problem instead of a speed problem. Very good video.
In Andrew Evans' book he includes the loss of Skip Allen's "Wildflower" via ships logs. In studying out that scenario I plotted the hurricane and and boat movement, and came to the conclusion that he really wasn't taking the storm seriously. I still reckon than is likely what caused the loss, but now that I better understand the proper course to make I'm going to find that scenario again. I'll let you know what I find in the coming week.