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There may be times in a work-boat's wheelhouse when things aren't going as expected - when you reach for that lever you've reached for a million times before and it's not there. Suddenly you can't cut back on power and the vessel you are approaching is way too close - and getting closer. This situation, or a similar one, is more apt to occur when someone works on different boats, each with a different layout of wheelhouse controls and displays. When a company's boats all have the same wheelhouse controls and instrumentation design, that confusion shouldn't be an issue. That's what Crowley Maritime Corp. is hoping to accomplish. "What we are trying to do with Crowley is standardize the pilothouse between all the boats so a crew can go from one class of vessel to another class and don't have to retrain themselves as to where all the switches are," said Jonathan Parrott, senior naval architect with Crowley Engineering Services. |