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Ship Handling - Topic

Ship handling involves using maritime knowledge and navigational equipment to safely operate a ship. The helmsman and officers must understand international regulations and be able to use equipment like the gyro compass, radar, and echo sounder for navigation and maneuvering. When issuing orders, the helmsman must repeat the order to the officer of the watch and execute it before reporting. The second officer prepares voyage plans on nautical charts to ensure safe navigation. Ship handling requires understanding how a ship behaves in different situations and what orders to give to maneuver it safely, especially at slow speeds or in wind and current.

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Ship Handling - Topic

Ship handling involves using maritime knowledge and navigational equipment to safely operate a ship. The helmsman and officers must understand international regulations and be able to use equipment like the gyro compass, radar, and echo sounder for navigation and maneuvering. When issuing orders, the helmsman must repeat the order to the officer of the watch and execute it before reporting. The second officer prepares voyage plans on nautical charts to ensure safe navigation. Ship handling requires understanding how a ship behaves in different situations and what orders to give to maneuver it safely, especially at slow speeds or in wind and current.

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Ship Handling

Ship handling is use all maritime knowledge and navigational equipment to operate
of the ship safety. The helmsman and officer understand the SOLAS convention
and the COLREGs. In addition, navigational equipment that helmsman need to
know such as helm, rudder indicator, gyro compass and radar, it's for manoeuvring
and navigating. If the ship across unstable water should use echo sounder
determine the depth water to avoid a grounding.There has two ways to the position
are distance from landmark and bearing includes longitude and latitude. When
OoW or Pilot issue wheel order, helmsman must repeat the order then execute and
finally report to OoW or Pilot. Second officer is create the voyage on nautical chart
for safety navigation.
By the way, ship handling is one of the skills that any ship handler/ˈhænd.lɚ/ finds
a safety when well navigation. The most basic thing to be understood in ship
handling is to know and guess /ɡes/ how a ship behaves /bɪˈheɪv under all situation
and what orders should be given in order to make the ship behave and move
exactly the way. The difference between the ships’ heading and the actual direction
of movement of the ship should also be continuity /ˌkɑːn.tənˈuː.ə.t̬ i/ attended /ə
ˈtend/ to as this is essentially /ɪˈsen.ʃəl.i/ important at slow speeds and when there
are wind and current.
Three basic ship motions:
1. Longitudinal motion (forward or astern):
2. Lateral motion (sideways).
3. Rotational or turning motion.
Vessels also have other behaviors worth noting when her maneuvering equipment
is in operation. Depending on the type of propeller, a ship with a single propeller
when run ahead from stop cants to either port or starboard; when to put astern from
stop the stern cants at a fast rate to port or starboard. When a ship has headway and
the rudder is put over to one side, the bow turns to the same side where the rudder
is turned.
Beside, ship handling is defined /dɪˈfaɪn/ as the art /ɑːrt/ of proper /ˈprɑː.pɚ/
control of a ship while underway especially in harbours, around docks and
berthing.While a ship is maneuvered, she is affected əˈfek.tɪd/ by the external
factor and internal factor.
The External Factor includes:
1. Tide, drift. The depth of harbours.
And the Internal Factor includes:
1. Engine power. broken propeller
The effects of external forces may become advantageous /ˌæd.vænˈteɪ.dʒəs/ or
disadvantageous, in which, the effects of the wind and current are the most
important. When there is wind blowing on one side of a high sided ship moving
ahead, she will not move along the intended course line but rather drift towards/tə
ˈwɔːd/ her port side. Likewise, if a current is acting on one side of a ship, she will
behave in the same manner  /ˈmæn.ɚ/, that is, she will be moving diagonally daɪ
ˈæɡ.ən.əl.i/ in the direction /daɪˈrek.ʃən/ where the current is setting although /ɑːl
ˈðoʊ/ her heading is on the course steered.

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