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Sinclair Pirie
Master 3000gt Limited Area
Mohammed Iqbal
3rd March 2022

Mr Iqbal used to work in Aberdeen and we had a talk about Orkney Ferries to help put me at ease. It was very nice of him to do this and very much appreciated by me.

1. You pass this exam and are joining as Master, what would you do?
2. Loadlines and the C loadlines on ships? What vessels have C marks? Can you have more than one set of C marks?
3. Draw the loadlines marks on your vessel
4. You’ve joined the ship and you are sailing from Kirkwall to Southampton. What would you do and what are your considerations?
5. Heavy weather is approaching, what would you do?
6. Signs that you are in the middle of a storm
7. You continue on your passage and you get called to the bridge after the ship hits a fishing boat, what would you do?
8. What is you responsibilities to the Fishing boat? What would you do?
9. You’ve discovered a hole in the Fore Peak due to this incident, what would you do? How would you proceed?
10. You proceed to dry dock, what are you going to do?
11. Can you go into dry dock with a head trim?
12. The Lloyds surveyor wants to enter the Fore Peak, how would you go about that?
13. You get repaired and are about to leave the dry dock, what do needs to be done?
14. While ballasting the vessel starts to lean over, what could be the cause of that?
15. What would you do to resolve it?
16. On your way out of the harbour and the helmsman reports that the steering is sluggish. What would cause that? How would you resolve that?
17. The weather blows up and it’s unsafe to leave what do you do?
18. The port is full and is asking vessel’s to go to anchor, you can’t stay, so you decide to go to anchor. Tell me about the dangers of deep water anchoring.
19. What statutory certificates do you carry? (thank you Harriet for the help with Certs)
20. What insurance do you require onboard?
21. Where would tell you about the Master’s Overriding Authority?
22. You continue on passage after the anchoring and the Mate dies, what would you do?
23. Who would you contact?
24. When do you carry out inspections of the ship’s accommodation?
25. You are doing your inspection of the Crew’s Accommodation and you find an open can of alcohol in the Bosun’s cabin. What do you do?
26. Buoys: Preferred channel to Starboard IALA A, Safe Water Mark, New Wreck Buoy, South Cardinal (Going East), East Cardinal, West Cardinal (going South)
27. How do make sure risk of collision exists?
28. ROR: Fishing Vessel on Port Side (TSS), PDV on Port Bow, RAM on Port Bow, PDV on Stbd Side (TSS)
29. Lights and shapes: RAM towing (3 white lights in a row and RAM on for’d mast) can see Stbd side lights, Tow (Poss. over 50 & over 200m (1 and 3 lights) stbd side lights, Sailing vessel, Aground. What would you do?

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HDG 225°

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