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Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. Which is the easiest way to make a landing?

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Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. Which is the easiest way to make a landing?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Effect of a right-hand propeller in ahead and astern propulsion • How transverse thrust (prop walk) acts on the ship’s stern when going astern • Which side-to landing lets you use astern power to bring the stern toward the pier rather than away from it

💭 Think About

• When you put a right-hand propeller astern, which way does the stern tend to move (to port or to starboard)? • For a side-to landing, do you want the natural propeller walk to push the stern toward the pier or away from it? • Looking at the direction of prop walk, which side-to (port or starboard) lets you land using minimal rudder and engine work?

✅ Before You Answer

• Be clear what right-hand propeller means: clockwise looking from astern, and recall its normal astern-side walk • Visualize the ship backing: note which quarter of the stern swings toward the pier in astern—this is the preferred side • Eliminate any options that do not take advantage of transverse thrust or that add unnecessary complexity (like anchoring) for a simple landing in no current

Question 1 of 27070

Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. Which is the easiest way to make a landing?

Either port or starboard side to, there is no difference in degree of difficulty

The vessel port side to

The vessel starboard side to

By dropping anchor and swinging the ship in to the pier

Question 1 / 2707066636ee728f7522a1c5182d2

Question 1 of 2707066636ee728f7522a1c5182d2

Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. Which is the easiest way to make a landing?

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Question 1 of 27070

Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. Which is the easiest way to make a landing?