Marina Exam Reviewer: Your vessel is a large twinscrew ship. You are stopped at the pilot station with no way upon your vessel. You must come around 180deg. to board your Pilot. How must you use the engines and rudder to turn the ship fastest in the least amount of space?

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Your vessel is a large twinscrew ship. You are stopped at the pilot station with no way upon your vessel. You must come around 180deg. to board your Pilot. How must you use the engines and rudder to turn the ship fastest in the least amount of space? 

A. Full ahead on the engines and hard over rudder 
B. Half ahead with hard over rudder, then full astern on inboard engine 
C. Full ahead on one engine, full astern on the other 
D. Slow ahead with hard over rudder 


Answer:      B. Half ahead with hard over rudder, then full astern on inboard engine 

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