Sailor Tom

About Sailor Tom

Sailor Tom has over 30 years experience in the Maritime Industry. He is currently a Maritime Lecturer at Glasgow Nautical College and specialises in the delivery of Navigation and Cargo subjects.
  Once you’ve have your cargo safely loaded onto the deck it needs to be secured. There are number of ways of effectively doing this including: Wires Chains  Rope  Straps “Tomming-off” Brackets Welding   Each of these methods is discussed in more details in this attached  PowerPoint.

Securing a Deck Cargo – OOW

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  The PowerPoint below provides guidance to Deck Officers concerning the loading of bulk cargos. In particular it discusses the loading requirements and constraints as well as stowage options for such cargo.    

Bulk Cargo Loading – OOW

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Prior to loading any cargo its important that the hold is properly prepared. The process of preparing holds for cargo work is regularly examined at OOW Oral Examinations and also potentially during OOW SQA written exams.    

Cargo Hold Preparation

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  Dry cargo space calculations at the OOW level take account of a number of factors these include: The cargo stowage factor (SF) Broken Stowage (BS) Grain Space Bale Space All of the above including example calculations are discussed in the following PowerPoint:

Dry Cargo Space Calculations OOW

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  When loading deck cargo their is 5 basic considerations that must be taken into account by the OOW these are: Strength Stability Visibility Drainage Safe Access The PowerPoint below discusses these in further detail and is available to download for offline viewing.          

Deck Cargo OOW Basic Considerations

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  Toms Chartwork Rules is an easy to follow downloadable PDF that guides you through the following practical chartwork problems: Allowing. Transferred position lines. Transferred position circles. Single alteration of course. Horizontal sextant angles. Vertical sextant angles. Counteracting. Luminous and geographic ranges.    

Toms Chartwork Rules

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