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Jeremy,

How are voyage abstracts or equivalent handled these days (key trip
log information provided to the main office such as departures,
arrivals, distance, bunkers, slip, overtime, cargo ops., etc.)? I
would imagine its done by satellite comm. direct to the main office.
Is there a radio officer? If not who gets stuck with the collateral
comm. duties?

Greg

On Jul 28, 11:39�pm, Anabasi...@aol.com wrote:
> As an aside to this, "Taking departure" is still done this way on the �
> merchant ships I've sailed on. �Departure is useful to begin the "passage" �from
> which consumption and distances are computed and it is still relatively �
> arbitrary. �They are still marked in both the log book and bell book as a �
> distance (usually obtained by radar) and bearing (ditto) as well as a GPS Lat �
> and Long.
>
> Passage planning as a whole is very detailed these days. Generally a �
> waypoint is marked as a departure point, but traffic and other considerations �
> may make the actual point of departure quite different than the planned �
> waypoint.
>
> Voyage planning, chart and pub corrections, and execution of the �voyage
> plan are the primary jobs of the navigator these days.
>
> As far as plotting sheets are concerned, this has nothing to do with taking
> �departure (or conversely arrival) in modern voyages. �We are usually well �
> onto charts before arrival is actually taken, even from ocean passages. �
> Recently, on this ship, we take arrival just shy of the pilot station, so we �
> have been off of the plotting sheets for some hours. �A good example of �
> this is my last arrival into Diego Garcia, which is an island in the middle of
> �nowhere. �We hit the chart at 0420 and took arrival at about 0900. �I �had
> first radar and then visual landfall by 0500.
>
> Jeremy
>
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