Passage Planning - Practice

Contents

1 Voyage Instructions

2 Confirmation of Destination

3 Appraisal

4 Planning

5 Execution

6 Monitoring

Appendices

It takes into account the elements that the Navigating Officer or Master considers including: danger areas, calculating wheel over points, transferring charts, using the key navigational publications to their best effect, gathering, collating, and presenting information in a useful manner, allocating bridge team resources, calculations en-route, tidal stream calculations, example risk assessments on passage, contingency anchorages, anchor plans, abort positions, and berthing plans.

Joint Publication of Seamanship International and Witherby's Publishing: 2006