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Forum: Challenges

12-07-2011, 10:44

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Challenge: Captain's License Questions

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Posted By nigel1

Re: Challenge: Captain's License Questions

Quite a few of the US tug boats were designed this way, need inward turning props, with no nozzles around the prop.
Driven a couple of Jay Ray McDermot boats, handled very nicely

Forum: Challenges

23-04-2010, 05:40

Replies: 45

Challenge: Captain's License Questions

Views: 9,853

Posted By nigel1

:thumb: Being really extravagant, and using...

:thumb:
Being really extravagant, and using both bow thrusters, and both stern thrusters in addition to props and rudders can do 360 turn in about 1 minute, but I tend to get a bit giddy and then...

Forum: Challenges

23-04-2010, 03:52

Replies: 45

Challenge: Captain's License Questions

Views: 9,853

Posted By nigel1

Turning short round with twin props

With an hour to spare between anchors this morning, tried an experiment in turning a twin screw boat through 180 degrees, once with rudders midships, and again with rudders hard over.
The boat is a...

Forum: Challenges

22-04-2010, 08:07

Replies: 45

Challenge: Captain's License Questions

Views: 9,853

Posted By nigel1

(a) and it works even better if you have the...

(a) and it works even better if you have the ability to split the rudders.
Right now I'm sitting on a 16000 HP power boat with twin props, if I'm wrong, then I've been doing it wrong for the past 20...

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