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Gears necessary should be made ready at slack water. |
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Gears will include 20-25mm slack wires, a smaller wire about 10mm or fiber rope, a boatswain's chair, equipments for breaking joining shackles. |
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Operation to be started as soon as ship swung to new stream. |
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Turns are hove above the water line. |
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Cable below turn lashed together. |
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Sleeping cable is unshackled on the deck. |
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A preventer may be used to prevent sudden loss of the parted cable and stress. |
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A wire messenger then passed down through the hawse pipe, dipped around the riding cable, and returned to the forecastle deck. |
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One inboard end of the wire is secured to the joining shackles, other end to the wrapping drum. |
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Easing wire may surge on the bitts. It can be led to a wrapping barrel or may be veered under power. |
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The messenger is hove and the easing wire is eased. |
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When one turn is cleared, the weight taken off the stoppers. |
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The wire is then cast off. The procedures are repeated until the cable is cleared. |
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Later, the joining shackle is joined, preventer cast off and fiber lashing burned through. |
