OBSERVED DRAUGHTS:
Forward...P & S aft...P
& S midships...P &
S
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Mean values, ie. draughts at centreline, forward, aft and midships.
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Correct from marks to perpendicular and midships positions.
Misplacement opposite to
trim, then positive (+)
Misplacement same as trim,
then negative (-)
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Hog/sag correction (mean of mean of means, or similar).
negative (-) for hog positive (+) for sag
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CORRECTED MEAN DRAUGHT ... to enter hydrostatic tables.
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Displacement from displacement table.
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First trim correction or Correction for layer (in tonnes).
LCF same as trim, then
positive (+)
LCF opposite to trim, then
negative (-)
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Second trim correction (in tonnes).
Always positive (+)
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List correction (in tonnes).
Always positive (+)
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Correction for density.
Less than salt water
density, then negative (-)
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CORRECTED DISPLACEMENT.
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Draught surveys
A guide to good practice
February 08, 2012
Corrections check list
Information check list
GENERAL INFORMATION
Ship's name Call
letters Port
of registry
Flag Year
built Master
Owners Owner's
address Owner's
agent
Manager/operator Charterer Charterer's
agent
Shipper Chief
Officer Chief
Engineer
Surveyor/s P&l
correspondent Ship's
location
Survey requested by: Survey on
account of: Type
of cargo
Weather conditions Date
and time of arrival
THE STABILITY INFORMATION
BOOK
Length between perpendiculars
Extreme and moulded breadth
Overall and moulded depth
Summer draught and freeboard
Summer displacement and deadweight
Misplacement of draught marks from perpendiculars and midships
Lightship displacement with lightship constant
Hydrostatic particulars:
Displacement, TPC, MCTC, LCB, LCF
Capacity plans and tables
Correction tables:
Trim
Position of marks
List
Hull deflection
PLANS
General arrangement plan
Profile plan indicating each space in the ship
OTHER SOURCES
Sounding tables and corrections for trim
Quantity of bunkers
Check list of reservations
(Not an exhaustive list)
Height of waves /
swell
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Clarity of
draught marks
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State of tide -
underkeel clearance
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Squat effects
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Variations in
density
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Daytime /
night-time
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Anchors moved, in
or out
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Ice / snow on
deck
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Quantity of
bilges pumped
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Residue in tanks
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Suspect
calibrations
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Ship movements
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Documentation and information
Surveyors and
ship's officers should discuss documentation details and the location and state
of all compartments. The instruction pages of the stability information book
and calibration tables should be studied and a check made of the tank
capacities with the capacity plan. It should be remembered that the port and
starboard tanks may not be the same and consequently have separate calibration
tables.
The base for
measurement of vertical heights, the reference point for longitudinal
measurements, the units and the sign conventions used in the tables must all be
verified. The units used in the correction tables should also be carefully
noted because there is sometimes a mixture of units and sign conventions
contained within the same documentation. The whole survey should be conducted
using the units of the ship and the final result changed to a suitable unit, if
necessary. When feet and inches are the standard unit, convert to feet and
decimals of a foot for the convenience of a calculator.
The full sounding
depths of tanks, the summer draught and freeboard and the record of recent tank
soundings should be noted.
Equipment check list
Sample jar and
water sample bucket with line
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Ballast tank
dipper with line
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Small hand pump
with hose for taking samples
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Draught survey
hydrometer with certificate
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Steel sounding
tape with graduations in metres and feet
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Water finding
paste
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Draught/freeboard
measuring device
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Manometer if some
draughts are impossible to read, plus a long measuring tape
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Plastic tube with
plug, to act as sounding pipe extension
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Boat available to
read inaccessible draughts
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Pilot ladder on
board ready for obtaining draughts
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Documentation
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Pocket computer
with draught survey program or calculator
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