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Passage Planning
Rob Starkey The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club
Copyright © R Starkey 2013
Context
Hobart to North Queensland
Cruising, mostly down wind sailing
Long passage days, with minimum average SOG
Mostly motor sailing the rhumb line
• 20% sailing, 60% motor sailing, 20% motoring
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Assumptions
Safety compliant vessel
Communication, VHF, Internet, and Telephone
Charts covering intended cruising area (including ports)
Electronic navigation aids
Ships Log
Pilots and other references covering area
Crew list with shore contacts
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Passage Planning
Objective
• Minimal exceptions and surprises, arriving at your planned destination, within the planned time, safely and in good spirit
Basic Project Management
• Collect required information
• Plan your passage, document and communicate
• Sail the passage to the plan
• Monitor and review the passage
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International Marine Organisation (IMO) Passage Planning Guidelines
• Safety of life at sea
• Safe and efficient navigation
• Protection of the environment
Objectives
• Appraisal, collecting information and resources
• Planning, the detailed passage from port to port
• Execution, sailing to the plan
• Monitoring, checking and review
Four components of Passage Planning
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Appraisal
• Vessel and crew preparedness for sea
• Documents (vessel and crew), Insurance, safety compliance, crew list and shore contacts
• Charts, pilots and navigation aids
• Notices to Mariners and current warnings
• Information about your passage, distance, tides, currents, weather forecasts
• List of lights
• Destination information, marina contact, marina maps, pilot anchoring recommendations
• Marine Rescue locations and contacts, operating hours, telephone and repeater channels used
• Alternate safe haven destinations
Gathering the required information about the passage;
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Planning
• Plotting of the intended passage on appropriate scale paper charts, waypoints and true directions with minimum clearances identified, (depths, height and lateral)
• Detailed route/waypoints loaded into your electronic navigation aids
• Tides at departure and destination including change
• Tidal currents along the intended passage
• Distance, departure time, planned arrival with assumptions
• Weather forecasts
• Reporting locations and times
• Lights and other passage conspicuous objects
A written plan from port to port (marina or anchorage), covering the following;
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Execution and Monitoring
Communication of the written plan, accessible by the crew at all times. A living document that can be modified where or when necessary. Pre departure equipment checks, lights communication
and navigation aids Waypoint and passage arrival times based on actual
departure time Current and updated weather forecasts Review and reporting of actual progress against plan Changes clearly marked on Plan Logging of progress, course, conditions and
communications in Ship’s Log (Paper Chart and Log Book)
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Short Coastal Passage Plan Example
Don’t forget to write down contact details and other information you may require at short notice.
I use a notebook that also doubles as my Ship’s Log
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Long Coastal Passage Plan Example
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Contents
Safety & Regulatory
Inside this Planner
How to use this Planner
Weather
Seamanship
Marina Maps
Communications
Lights
Passage Management
Incident Management
Health care
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Lizard Island
Bowen
Duke Islands
Bundaberg
12o
30
15o
17o
30
20o
22o
30
25o
27o
30
152o 30150o147o 30145o142o 30
Cooktown
Torres Strait
Cardwell
Bowen
St Lawrence
Burnett Heads
Double Island Pt
Point Danger
Cairns
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2
3
4
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Gold Coast Seaway
Trial Bay
Port Jackson
Two Fold Bay
Flinders Island
30o
32o
30
35o
37o
30
40o
42o
30
155o152o 30150o147o 30145o
Point Danger
Wooli
Smoky Cape
Seal Rocks
Broken Bay
Port Hacking
Ulladulla
Montague I.
Gabo IslandLakes Entrance
Tasman I.
Cape Barren
St Helens Pt
Wineglass Bay
Tasman I.
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Hobart
Passages
Lights
VHF Repeaters
Marina Maps
How to use the Planner
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Questions
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