TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
OUTLINE SHEET 5-03-1 (continued)
(d) Line captain orders:
1 Ship line handlers to “Pay out line #.”
2 Pier line handlers to “Heave around on line #.”
Pier line handlers heave around.
(e) When enough line is out to the pier, line captain
orders ship line handlers, “Avast paying out.”
(f) Pier line handlers place the eye of the mooring line
over the bollard.
(g) Shift colors when first mooring line is over bollard.
(h) Line captain orders ship line handlers, "Put a round
turn clockwise on the bitt closest to the chock."
When completed and hands are clear of bitts, "Heave
around line #." (Repeat until line is tight.)
(i) Line captain orders ship line handlers, "Put four
figure eights on the bitts."
(j) Line captain makes report to the POIC, “Line # singled
up.”
(k) Automatically prepare to double up by placing second
eye of line through chock; make up second heaving line
and attach to eye using bowline.
(5) Double 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 gives command to line handler, “Heave
line to pier.”
(c) Ship line handler that is heaving the line:
1 Warns, “Heads up on deck. Heads up on pier.
One-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousandthree.”
2 Heaves the line to the pier.
(d) Line captain orders ship line handlers to “Pay out
line #.”
(e) Pier line handlers will heave around on line #.
(f) When enough line is out to the pier, line captain
orders ship line handlers, “Avast paying out.”
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