Rumos Práticos 62 by Praticagem do Brasil published in Portuguese and English

by Rhys Davies, current Apprentice. Published already in Feb. 2020 by ABP.

Another valuable explanatory video by Knud Benedict:
Zig-Zag-Test-Manoeuvre for Yaw Stability, IMO Manoeuvring Standards and Crash Stop

This video shows an introduction on the Spiral-Test-Manoeuvre and describes the procedure how to steer through this manoeuvre and measure the data needed. The results will be displayed in a characteristic diagram allowing to identify stable and unstable conditions and related, detailed information, e.g. spiral loop width and height, rudder angle of neutral effect. Samples of stable and unstable ship behaviour demonstrations will be shown by Fast Time Simulation using the SAMMON Planning tool.

Who knows the S-100 / S-102 electronic card standard? An introduction by the Maritime Simulation and Resource Centre, Canada

Fathom Safety now offers an online course on Pilot Ladder Training

Video footage from the Florø rescue helicopter.

Article and pictures by Captain W J M Hargreaves, Retired Southampton Pilot

Books about pilotage, mooring, shiphandling, tugs & Co,

To monitor the vessel’s progress, the pilot had set up his portable pilotage unit (PPU). He had connected the rate-of-turn generator to the vessel’s pilot plug and had set a variable range marker on the radar with a radius of 0.5 nm.