deep breath:
where the government of any state has decided that a vessel of special construction or purpose cannnot comply with the provisions of these rules with regard to the number position range or arc of visibility of lights or shapes, as well as to disposition and charactersitics of sound signalling apparatus, such vessel shall comply with such other provisions with regard to the number position range or arc of visibility of lights or shapes, as well as to the disposition and characteristics of sound signalling apparatus, as her government shall have determined to be the closest possible compliance with these rules in respect of that vessel
or something like that- and I haven't done a ror test since January 2005.
BRNC will start things off nice and easy with just knowing what to do in a given situation. The pass mark slowly rises and you have to give more and more detailed answers. The last time all branches sit an ror test is at the end of IST, and by that stage you have to be verbatim. You will do one at least once a month at sea as a dabber- and some ships will test weekly depending on how keen the navs is. You have to be verbatim- or so I was always told- so that you come across better when giving testimony at a court martial or boi.
They don't break it into sections because this is not a modular GCSE! :thumright: An awful lot of what you learn at Dartmouth is learn and dump, but, as a dabber, the ror really are not. You have to be able to quote any of them, off the top of your head, at any time of the day or night. It really isn't difficult. I can still give approximations of them- see above- and I've been outside since 2006 and was shoreside before that so havn't looked in the book for years. It will come and it's not something to worry about before you even get there by any means.
