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Wind drift making headway - practical experiments for voyage planning and Rule of Thumb

published on 7 April 2021 - 254 -

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Found on YouTube. Created by "ISSIMS - Innovative Ship Simulation". Originally published on 2021-03-08.

Here are described some experiments to get data for voyage planning:
- how to measure wind effects and prepare ship specific diagrams to estimate required drift angles and also rudder angles for wind balance
- to be applied for voyage planning, considering expected operational conditions, specifically for preparing manoeuvring plans for Port arrival and departure planning!
- analysing theses data a simple formula could be derived to calculate the drift angle ß depending on absolute wind speed VA, encounter angle aA and ship speed Vs to:
ß= arctan (CD*(VA +Vs*cos aA)*sin aA)/Vs)
And all this is demonstrated by means of the unique SAMMON Planning software based on Fast Time Simulation of ship manoeuvres...
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Knud Benedict

ISSIMS GmbH
Innovative Ship Simulation And Maritime Systems

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Mr Sean O’Toole ABP - Associated British Ports, United Kingdom

on 7 April 2021, 16:13 UTC

In my experience, a ship moving ahead, rudder amidships, the ship will develop a rate of turn into the wind. However the first manoeuvre on this simulator with rudder midships does not show this, in fact no RoT at all. Quite often at work, I will tell the bridge team I am about to start a turn to starboard/port, order midships and then try to crack a joke about the ship has been here before and knows where to go!!

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