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Your vessel is off a lee shore in heavy weather and laboring. Which action should you take?

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Your vessel is off a lee shore in heavy weather and laboring. Which action should you take?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Lee shore – what danger does a lee shore create in heavy weather? • Heavy weather shiphandling – best heading relative to wind and seas for safety and control • Effects of speed on pounding, shipping seas, and risk of broaching or being set onto a lee shore

💭 Think About

• First, eliminate the option that obviously places the vessel in the least controllable and most dangerous orientation to the seas. • Ask yourself: in heavy weather, do you usually want full speed, increased speed, or reduced speed when the vessel is already laboring? Why? • Think about the safest relative heading to the seas: directly ahead, directly astern, on the beam, or slightly forward of the beam?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which option avoids being in the trough of the sea (beam seas), which is generally dangerous in heavy weather. • Check which answer balances maintaining headway and steering control with reducing stress on the vessel’s structure and machinery. • Confirm that the chosen heading and speed reduce the risk of being set down onto the lee shore by wind and sea.

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Your vessel is off a lee shore in heavy weather and laboring. Which action should you take?

Put the sea and wind on either quarter and proceed at increased speed.

Put the bow directly into the sea and proceed at full speed.

Put the sea and wind about two points on either bow and reduce speed.

Heave to in the trough of the sea.

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Your vessel is off a lee shore in heavy weather and laboring. Which action should you take?

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Your vessel is off a lee shore in heavy weather and laboring. Which action should you take?