Marina Exam Reviewer: Your ship is equipped with a right-handed propeller. As you go full astern from full ahead, the ship is sheering to starboard. Is there anything you can do to reduce the change in heading?

Marina Exam Reviewer

Your ship is equipped with a right-handed propeller. As you go full astern from full ahead, the ship is sheering to starboard. Is there anything you can do to reduce the change in heading? 

A. I can swing the rudder from side to side 
B. no, there is nothing I can do 
C. Put the rudder hard to port to reduce the water flow to the right side of the propeller 
D. Put the rudder hard to port to reduce the water flow to the left side of the propeller


Answer:      C. Put the rudder hard to port to reduce the water flow to the right side of the propeller 

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