Dutch also
The only place I saw it working well was on small utility boats in the oil patch.
I think the Dutch have it on some dredgers but from what I have heard about the system most big ship folk tended to specialise once they got past 3M or 4E
Chart corrections, Christ , easy now.
Admiralty sends you a link and you put tracing paper in the printer and out they come.
If the Second Mate has remembered to keep on top of the printer supplies.
In the ‘good old days’, it was quite tense when the ship got down to the last 2B pencil.
Especially if the C/M had spent too much time on the 4 to 8 using the rubber end on the ships cat.
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Second Mate figures two packets (24) 2B pencils should be sufficient orders 8 packets. Old Man reduces order to 4 packets on the order sheet. Company sends two packets, all good.
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Typical Chief Mate’s job.
My weapon is my thumb drive. Download corrections to thumb drive (AVCS/AIO) and transfer to the ECDIS. 4 hours OT for probably 15 minutes of “work.” Done. Toss in some meal reliefs, weekend automatic OT and changing routes on tramp service with a little *click click* action and you wonder who the hell really wants to move up? A sadist who enjoys migraines? No thanks. Especially when one sees how management (often managers who’ve never sailed themselves) talk to and treat the senior officers and it’s easy to understand why so many squat on this job. Pretty much the most “nautical” job left on the ship, despite the technology.
Even when I had paper charts to correct by hand and voyages to generate from scratch, it was still the easiest job on the ship.
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Sounds like your billet is sorted. My first job as 2/O was straight off 23 hours travel, Previous guy had a nervous breakdown. New orders Singapore to US port unspecified . 63 chart folios with corrections about a foot high. The OM gave me a lookout for the afternoon . 6 0n 6 off in port.
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Sounds like my first 2/O gig. We broke out a ship laid up for eight years that had only charts to get to Sunny Point. My portfolio came down the dock there on a forklift. The entire world, I exaggerate not. I spent the next five months sorting, filling out index cards etc.
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