A car carrier had been loaded, not with cars but with bundles of timber. These were stowed on decks five and seven, the only decks allowing forklifts without height restrictions. The remaining decks would remain empty. This was just the second voyage for the Chief Officer (CO) in a Pure Car Carrier.
A pre-sailing calculation was made on the stability computer but the drafts as visually checked were found to be different from those calculated (actual forward draft 8.850 but calculated 8.256,...
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