Training at Port Revel The Shiphandling Training Centre Françoise Massard

Summary

Contents

• General background to the course
  
• The birth of Port Revel
  • And, first, of Sogreah
  • Creation of Port Revel
• The course itself
  
• Presentation of the Centre
  – The lake and the port
  – The fleet
  
• Laws of similitude
  – Similitude of the scale models
  – Similitude of manœuvres
  
• First practical session
  – Ship turning in deep and shallow waters
  – Docking and undocking manœuvres with or without current
  – Manœuvres with escort tugs
  
• More practical exercises
  – Manœuvres using anchors
  – Confined waters and bank effects. Meeting and overtaking
  – Manœuvres in waves
  – Mooring at a SPM/FPSO
  
• Scale models and simulators : two complementary tools
• To conclude...
  • Greetings to the week's students
  • Our instructors
  • Places to visit in the Chambaran region
• Accommodation during the course

Centre de Port Revel 38870 Saint-Pierre de Bressieux (France) – www.portrevel.com Tél. 33 (0)4 74 20 02 40 – Fax 33 (0)4 74 20 12 29 – port.revel@sogreah.fr