Masters unlimited
Examiner: Chris Roe . Dover office
4th nov 2022
0900
Pass
Logged in 15 mins earlier and waited
Sharp 0900 we started
Quite a short introduction and passport checked
Which mgn is applicable to your exam? 361 or 69
1) Synoptic chart high over uk with a cold front advancing from north
Wx and wind speed and direction
2) Crossing the Atlantic : ice berg limitations and precautions
3) Hydrometer : use and prediction of fog
4) Trs : signs encounter and action
5) Ice-creation: master reporting (6 of them) and stability solution for a stiff ship
6) Coming alongside port side to (tide ahead , strong onshore wind) which line first also
7) Mediterranean moor ( how and when would you use it)
8) Anchoring ( best seabed and do you normally keep your engines on)
9) Ship drifts towards you heavy weather can’t move out ,action)don’t forget fendering
10) Then you suffer damage what’s next (condition of class)
11) Arrived port of refuge what first thing (note protest)
12) Certification (hot topic almost got me , all for pax ships including crew and senior staff)
13) Garbage management onboard
14) 2nd officer making a passage plan what do you expect to see( check list APEM …)
15) Rule 19 three situation ( target on stbd then one more from right astern
16) Bouyage region light and action
17) Ror rule 18 f/v
18) F/v rule 10
19) Rule 13 (hot topic) if you are being overtaken you don’t have to keep your course just do you want)
20) Being overtaken and you have a Odc to stbd
21) Compass error
22) Heeling bucket uses
23) Light (pdv towing , a ground , cbd and trawler)
24) Overtaking in narrow channel signals
That was about it then I was briefed how I did and how I need to focus and certification and finally he said overall it’s a passsss.
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