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Category: Navigation

Wheel Over Position
Navigation

Wheel Over Position

adminMarch 19, 2025March 19, 2025

WOP is the point on the initial course at which the wheel is put over to initiate the turning of…

Rudder Cycling, Head reach and Track Reach
Navigation

Rudder Cycling, Head reach and Track Reach

adminAugust 25, 2024August 25, 2024

Rudder Cycling works on the principle of diverting the fore and aft thrust sideways but not really taking the vessel…

Precautions polar water
Navigation

Precautions polar water

adminAugust 25, 2024August 25, 2024

In general, during ice ship navigation, an ice pilot and ice breakers are provided to help commercial vessel operations by…

GMDSS equipment power
Navigation

GMDSS equipment power

adminAugust 25, 2024August 25, 2024

Source of GMDSS equipment power from following :- GeneratorEmergency generatoremergency battery The GMDSS battery is usually in the range of…

Weather associated with cold fronts
Navigation

Weather associated with cold fronts

adminAugust 24, 2024August 24, 2024

A cold front normally occurs when a huge mass of cold and chilly air meets a mass of warm air,…

Tidal Calculations
Navigation

Tidal Calculations

adminJune 24, 2024June 24, 2024

Many of us are quite scared of solving the tide problems especially calculations involving Secondary Ports Lets first handle calculation…

Celestial Fix Best Practices – 2
Navigation

Celestial Fix Best Practices – 2

adminJune 23, 2024June 23, 2024

Star finder ? How to use it? Star finder is used to choose suitable stars for celestial observations and for…

Best practice for celestial fix
Navigation

Best practice for celestial fix

adminJune 18, 2024June 18, 2024

LOP Separated by 15° LOP Separated by 90° Azimuths Separated by 120° Azimuths Separated by 60°

GMDSS
Navigation

GMDSS

adminSeptember 18, 2023September 18, 2023

The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is an international system relating to all vessels over 300 gross tonnes…

ECDIS MANAGEMENT
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ECDIS MANAGEMENT

adminMay 27, 2023May 27, 2023

Compliance of ECDIS system ECDIS SOFTWARE VERSIONS ECDIS that is not updated to the latest version of the IHO Standards…

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