Anonymous vs Chris Roe

Chief Mate Unlimited: 24/03/26
Examiner: Chris Roe
PASS
Last minute examiner change, logged in from my original link but when no one came online at the exam time I checked my email and found a new link had just been sent. Asked me my experience throughout my career, he explained he would be asking me questions from MIN653 and then started.
1. Showed me a Synoptic chart – tell me a forecast for the UK on this day
2. What was your last passage? What information would the Chief Mate give the 2nd officer prior to starting the passage plan.
3. Considerations for stability throughout the passage
4. Sextant – what are the 9 errors on a sextant and what are the correctable errors
5. Showed me a picture of a Stevenson screen – what is used for?
6. Said I was now master. Showed me a precision aneroid barometer and said I’ve seen it fall 5mb over the past 3 hours, no storm forecast received. Answered, transmit a SOLAS danger message and actions as per in the vicinity of TRS.
7. What are the other danger messages? Answered as per Reg 31, also mentioned reporting containers which he was happy with.
8. RV actions prior to the captain coming onto the bridge
9. RV vessel crossing from stbd, ROC exists – wanted me to quote part d of the rule and state my actions
10. Running moor, draw it, explain it
11. Load line marks, draw it (I asked if he wanted dimensions / timber LL, he said no)
12. Considerations on a timber vessel – wanted to hear absorption of water in the cargo, what it will cause, explanation of loll – vessel stable or unstable?
13. Actions on a timber vessel in loll, I said jettison cargo
14. Vessel at an angle of loll – draw it on a GZ curve
15. Loading of heavy cargo, what is tank top density, where would I find it.
16. Talked about CSM further, steel coils and lashings
17. What is the IMDG code and how would I use it?
18. DWA formula, what is it?
19. ECDIS – what makes an ECDIS and ECDIS
20. ECDIS – what inputs are required
21. ECDIS – what happens to your ECDIS if your GPS fails – wanted to hear DR
22. What can you do to make your DR more accurate; I said account for set and drift
23. You’re now the master, and the 2nd officer reports Dev of 6 deg, is this acceptable? No. What are your actions? Went through all the checks on the Mag
compass, correctors etc. He said everything is fine, now what. I said arrange to get it swung and he was happy with this. 24. Full explanation for actions as Chief Off – fire in the engine room. Asked about fixed firefighting on my vessel.
25. Fire in the engine room, considerations for flooding with use of water or CO2? Main Engine failure / NUC
26. Full explanation for actions as Chief Off – in a grounding. I mentioned initial actions and use of Damage control plan, later mentioned sounding around the vessel and sounding of the tanks, that was what he wanted to hear.
27. Tug cannot arrive for 12 hours, actions. Ballast the vessel down.
28. Frequency of drills – fire, enclosed space
29. Frequency of accommodation inspections
30. Dry docking, why a stern trim? What is the critical period? Critical instant?
31. How would you know what plugs to remove? Tank plug plan.
32. What would you do with the plugs once removed, I said label them as per the plan and keep them in my cabin, he was happy with this.
33. Buoyage – lights and sequence
North cardinal, east cardinal, west cardinal, South cardinal
Port lateral, Isolated danger, Preferred channel
You’re heading 090, showed me a north cardinal – actions
You’re heading 090, showed me an east cardinal – actions
34. Showed me a yellow X and asked me what buoy this is placed on
35. Asked me what ODAS stands for
36. Crossing situation, vessel from port – actions?
37. FV crossing from stbd to port actions, I said alt crs to stbd, he asked if I could go to port, I said yes.
38. Smarty board:
Towing <50m towing alongside
PDV >50m, head on
RAM seen from astern, actions and under what rule?
Towing V/L <50m tow <200m port aspect
Sailing vessel, head on