Elements and Performance Criteria
- Perform exchange of watch
- Check information required for exchange of watch, including identification of any safety risks, is complete, accurate and relevant to both personnel and existing circumstances
- Perform handover and relief of watch according to principles and procedures of watchkeeping
- Clarify watch information or instructions that are unclear or ambiguous
- Contribute to the navigational watch
- Ensure displayed or given lights, shapes and sound signals conform with regulatory requirements
- Maintain lookout at all times according to principles and procedures of watchkeeping
- Provide clear and concise reports and exchanges of navigational information, including reporting any safety risks and hazards
- Monitor traffic, the vessel, weather watchkeeping and hazards with appropriate frequency and intensity
- Ensure frequency and degree of performance checks to navigational equipment comply with skipper requirements
- Manoeuvre the vessel during watch
- Make manoeuvres to safely progress the planned voyage and comply with received instructions
- Operate engine control systems to progress planned passage and complement helm movements
- Steer course steadily within acceptable limits of area of navigation and existing state of aquatic environment
- Ensure course alterations are smooth and controlled with minimal over shoot
- Ensure communication is clear, concise and acknowledged at all times
- Change steering modes according to operating instructions, area, wind and state of aquatic environment, and marine notices
- Maintain vessel steering systems within safe operating limits during normal manoeuvres