On watch again at 0400, good visibility and low traffic density. Pilot boarded at 0800 and I went down aft to help with mooring. Alongside in Portsmouth at 0930 with bunker barge alongside to load Avcat (a less volatile form of aviation fuel that we carry in bulk).
The second watch of the day saw us leaving Portsmouth and steaming towards Falmouth to perform DP* trials before heading south.
Bunker Barge alongside in PortsmouthDP* Dynamic Positioning is a system used on board used mainly for survey work. It links the 4 thrusters (2 forward and 2 aft), the azipod, main propeller and rudder to a central system that can hold the ship on a location using a reference system, for the trials we will just be using 2 GPSs and 3 Gyro compasses. The trials are to test the redundancy of the system.
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