# What navigation and ship handling skills (without instruments) should junior officer have?

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**Created:** [October 10, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/what-navigation-and-ship-handling-skills-without-instruments-should-junior-officer-have/67292 "2023-10-10T11:11:42Z")\
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> [@Hogsnort](#):
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> ship sensors such as radar are monitored else where such as the combat information centre.

That was also my experience aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutters. There were two radars in the wheelhouse but all collision avoidance radar plotting was done in CIC. They also ran a redundant navigation plot as described by Hutchins.

[The Technology of Team Navigation - Hutchins - #3 by Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-technology-of-team-navigation-hutchins/60071/3)

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