Passage Planning Flashcards
What is APEM?
Appraisal (Gather all information related to voyage)
Planning (Lay out the voyage)
Execution (Execute, review, change if required)
Monitoring (Monitor the passage by all available resources)
What should be on a passage plan?
ETD
ETA
Route
Fuel / Stores
Speed
Tidal information
Stops or deviations
Guests demands
Weather
Stability criteria
Safe havens
Company navigation policy / SMS
Which publications are good to use for passage planning?
Chart Catalogue
Charts
Ocean Passages of The World
Routeing Charts
Weather Routeing Charts
Admiralty Sailing Directions
Admiralty List of Lights and Fog Signals
Admiralty List of Radio Signals
Tide Tables
Tidal Stream Atlas
Notices to Mariners
Admiralty Distance Tables
Ships Routeing
Navigational Warnings
Mariner’s Handbook
Nautical almanac
Ship Data / Manoeuvring Booklet
Owners and other sources
Personal Experience / Previous Plans
Where should a passage plan go from/to?
Berth to berth
What should be planned on the chart?
No go areas
Waypoints
Courses + course notations
Distances
XTD / Margins of safety
Planned speeds
Position fixing methods
Position fixing intervals
Calling points (VTS)
Navigation hazards
Slow down points / S.B.E
Abort lines
Contingency Anchorages / Safe havens
Parallel Indexes
Change of chart points
Equipment checks (echo sounder)
Currents
What’s the OOW’s role in the monitoring phase?
THREE Ps
PEOPLE
Fully licensed officers shall be on the bridge at all times
Shall be fit for duty (not under the influence of alcohol, drugs or fatigue and medically fit)
There shall be sufficient personnel for navigational workload
The officer shall have done a company familiarisation in the bridge
During the hours of darkness you must have a lookout and the lookout should have a navigational watchkeeping certificate
The bridge personnel shall have mariners english
PROCEDURES
The OOW has overall safety of vessel, people onboard, the environment and others around you
We should monitor the vessel along her intended track, ensuring we don’t run into danger
Comply with COLREGS (mainly 7 & 8)
Maintain a safe radio watch, responding to all distress
Keep an internal lookout
Following SMS, companies- and masters standing orders
Monitoring the weather and processing weather and navigational warnings
Cross checking and monitor navigational equipment and responding to alarms
Displaying correct lights & signals
Comply with marpol
Make sure safety rounds are conducted
Ensuring that the vessel is reporting as required
Conducting proper handovers
Calling the master at appropriate times
PAPERWORK
Keep a complete record of everything that happened on your watch
GMDSS Logbook - all distress and summary of usage (and testing) shall be logged
Garbage record book
Magnetic compass book
Any ISM checklist
