PASSAGE PLANNING

The Plan
Introduction
Appraisal
Planning
Execution
Monitoring
Main SMS Bridge Procedures
FMCL 053-12 UKC
Southampton Port Card
Le Havre Port Card
Passage Planning Development

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Captain Jean-Paul ROUTIER
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Responsibility
The Master has overall responsibility to oversee the
passage planning.

The actual plan should be constructed by the 2nd Officer.

All Officers involved in the navigation of the vessel must

read and sign the plan.

It is the responsibility of all deck officers to contribute

their own information to the plan.

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1. THE PLAN

Voyages of whatever length

=
Preparation + Execution

Preparation = appraisal + planning

Execution = organisation + monitoring

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2. INTRODUCTION

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3. APPRAISAL

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Information sources
1. Chart Catalogue 11. Radio signal information
2· Navigational charts (including VTS and pilot service)
3· Ocean Passages for the 12. Climatic information
World 13. Load-line chart
4· Routing charts or pilot 14. Distance tables
charts 15. Electronic navigational systems
5· Sailing Directions and information
Pilot Books 16. Radio and local warnings
6· Light Lists 17. Owner's and other unpublished
7· Tide Tables sources
8· Tidal stream atlases 18. Draught of vessel
9· Notices to Mariners 19. Personal experience
(Navareas, Hydrolants, 20. Mariner's Handbook …
Hydropacs)
10. Routing information

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Factors to take into consideration
4. PLANNING (1)
oCharts* o Deviation from
oNoGo Areas* Track*
oMargin of Safety* o Under-keel
oSafe Water* clearance*
oOcean and Open Water o Tidal Window*
Tracks* o Stream Allowance*
oCoastal and Estuarial o Course alteration
Tracks* and Wheel Over*
oChart Change* o Parallel Indexing*
oDistance off Danger*
o ARPA Mapping
oRegulations*
o Waypoints*

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Factors to take into consideration
Course alteration and Wheel Over Position*
Wheel over position: some distance before the track
intersection to achieve the new planned track:
oShip’s maneuvring characteristics :Shallow
waters/Deep waters: Pilot card and Wheelhouse poster
oUKC/Speed: risk of squate effect
oMinimum UKC: FMCL 053-12
oLocal current tide and stream
oWind effect: windage surface
oGM = Metacentric Height
oRate of Turn/SOG + Circular Radius …

Owned Fleet Weekly Status 11

NoGo AreasNO*

Owned Fleet Weekly Status 12

Margin of Safety

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Charted Tracks

Owned Fleet Weekly Status 14

Course alteration and Wheel-over
Position

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Parallel Indexing

Owned Fleet Weekly Status 16

Leading Lines

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Natural Transit, Clearing Marks and Head
Marks

Owned Fleet Weekly Status 18

Clearing Bearings

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Natural Transit, Clearing Marks and Head
Marks

Owned Fleet Weekly Status 20

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4. PLANNING (2)

oAborts and Contingencies

> Aborts= « Point of no return »*

> Contingencies*

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