"Calif Bill" wrote ...
Great shot of an emergency turn on a nuke carrier. PBS runs the story
once
in awhile on the carrier Ike, and part of the commisioning test is an
emergency turn at about 35 knots. The boat must be at a 30 degree angle.

After every yard period, a ship has to go through an ORE (Operational
Readiness Evaluation)... The emergency turn is one small part of the ORE...
It didn't seem like it went to 30 degrees though... I don't remember what
the "point of no return" was on the ship... Too many years have passed... I
seem to remember on the destroyers it was around 60 degrees... I knew one
guy who said that they were coming into Norfolk after a cruise and due to
the weather plus being lightly loaded, they were doing 50 degree lists each
way...

In article ,
(Rich Stern) writes:

The boat performance about the same going backward as it does going
foward. Looks the same going that way, too.

(Grin)

Frank Bell

In article , "Grumman581"
writes:

I find
myself having to move the wheel from one side to the other quite often to
get it to track a relatively straight line at idle speeds like when you're
lining it up to load it on a trailer

I have experienced that with my outboard. There was a long thread about that
last year--the conclusion was that that was not unusual. The Christina River
in Wilmington, Del, is no wake throughout the city--a couple of miles, I would
guess. At no wake, to maintain a straight course, I have to adjust the course
every 30 or 40 feet. I'm talking about moving the wheel no more than an inch
or two. I tell myself that it's because I'm on an unstable platform and, at
slow speeds, cannot override the instability of that platform.

Don't know if it's true, but that's what I tell myself.

Frank Bell