ANCHOR OPS AND DEPLOYMENT Flashcards
What is an anchor ball?
A black ball shape not less than 0.6 meters shown in the forepart of the vessel.
What are anchor bearings?
A set of crossed compass bearings as observed from the ship laying at anchor to identify the ship’s positions.
What does the term “anchor coming home” mean?
The anchor is being drawn towards the ship instead of the ship moving towards the anchor–possibly due to heavy weather or current working against the ship.
What does the term “A-Peak mean”?
When the ship’s bow is above the anchor position-the cable would be “up and down”.
What does the term “A-trip” mean?
The moment the anchor breaks free from the bottom when weighing anchor.
What is a bull ring?
Same as bull nose-center lead forward on ship for running mooring lines or to pass a tow line.
What is a cable clench?
Holding arrangement for the bitter end of the anchor chain located in the anchor chain locker or just outside.
What is a capstan?
A VERTICAL mooring drum.
What is the crown of the anchor?
The area of the anchor at the base of the shank between the tripping palms.
What is dredging the anchor?
Moving the ship with the anchor on a short lead that helps control the movement of the ship at slow speeds.
What is a fowled anchor?
When the anchor is found to be obstructed or tangled with debris when weighing anchor.
What is a fowled hawse?
When two anchors are deployed and the chains become tangle as the ship swing. Cross-180 deg swing; Elbow-360 deg. swing; Cross and Elbow- 540 deg. swing; Round turn-720 deg. swing.
What does the term Kedging mean?
Moving ship by use of small anchors and hawsers.
What is a Baltic Moor?
A combination mooring of a vessel that holds the vessel just off the berth by rigging a stern mooring line into an offshore anchor that is dropped off the berth and taking in on the mooring.
What is a “Ganger length”
A short length of cable found between the anchor crown shackle and the first joining shackle of the anchor cable.