TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
OUTLINE SHEET 5-03-1 (continued)
(1) Station the special sea and anchor detail. All shipboard
personnel report to their stations.
(2) When all personnel are on station and ready to get
underway, make manned and ready reports to the bridge via
sound-powered phones.
(3) Sound-powered phone talkers must establish communications
(i.e., perform phone checks) between their station and the
bridge.
(4) Remove bird’s nest.
(a) Line captain orders shipboard line handlers to remove
bird’s nest down to figure-eight turns and fake line
down on deck.
(b) CAUTION: Removing the figure-eight turns will let the
doubled section go slack and can cause snapback
condition on all lines.
(5) Single up all lines.
(a) Order received through sound-powered phones, given to
POIC, and relayed to line captain. Line captain
acknowledges order.
(b) Line captain orders ship line handlers, “Remove figure
eights and round turn slack line.” When there is
enough slack to remove line from bollard, order,
“Avast slack.”
(c) Line captain orders pier line handlers, “Cast off line
#.” Pier line handlers remove the dipped eye from the
bollard.
(d) Line captain orders ship line handlers, "Heave around
line #."
(e) When line is through chock, line captain makes report
to the POIC, “Line # singled up.”
(f) POIC relays message to OOD on bridge via sound-powered
phone talker
(g) Line captain orders, "Fake down line.”
(6) Take in all lines.
(a) Order received through sound-powered phones, given to
POIC, and relayed to line captain. Line captain
acknowledges order.
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