Knight's - Modern Seamanship - Docking, Mooring, and Anchoring Flashcards
1
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Pass one (or number one)
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- Send line number one over to the pier. Place the eye over the bollard or cleat, but do not take a strain.
2
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Slack (slack off) the bowline (number one)
A
- Pay out the line specified, allowing it to form an easy bight
3
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Take a strain on one (or number one)
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- Put number one line under tension
4
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Take in the slack on three (or number three)
A
- Heave in on number three line but do not take a strain
5
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Ease three
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- Pay out number three enough to remove most of the tension
6
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Avast heaving
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- Stop heaving (taking in)
7
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Check three
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- Hold number three line but not to the breaking point, letting the line slip as necessary
8
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Hold two
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- Take enough turns so that the line will not slip
9
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Double up and secure
A
- Run additional lines or bights of lines as needed to make the mooring secure. Rig rat guards.
10
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Single up
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- Take in all lines but a single standing part to each station, preparatory to getting underway
11
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Stand by your lines
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- Tend the lines, ready to cast off, or moor
12
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Take in one (or number one)
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- Retrieve line number one after it has been cast off.
- when used by conning officer - slack one, cast it off, and pull it back aboard
- when use by officers at fo’c’sle - it is preceded by commands “slack one” and “cast off one”
13
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Orders to Sailors at the Lines - Cast off
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- A command to those tending the mooring lines on the pier or on another ship to disengage or throw off the lines from over the bollards or cleats
