Yesterday, 12:52 AM
Outstanding, I was going to bring that up: prop walk.
Single screw vessels, large or small will have their stern deflected when in reverse due to the effect of the prop blades on the water and hull.
A single screw vessel, like this ship, will walk its stern to port when backing with a right hand rotation prop.
This is true with either a fixed or variable pitch prop.
Walking its stern to port induces a right hand turn to starboard, that would be impossible to correct with no electric power, because you will have no steering.
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