G'day All,
LNT,
, I don't actually recall "aiming circles" on the boats, all I know is that I had a leeway of around 3 inches in any direction or the belly hook tie down wasn't in the right position. It certainly taught me to look AT what I'm about to put my skids on rather than out the front!!
SASL, We've seen the "hover over the water" problem with ex navy guys coming into the MPT stuff. It's very scary when they try and hover OGE off the side of a perfectly good IGE deck (especially at night). Quite often, on the ungeared vessels, we completely ignore the circle (non slip paint is the exception rather than the rule on >90% of the ships we see) and land on a clear spot on the marked hatch cover in order to hang the T/R over the edge and out of the way of suicidal crew members
Cheers,
MPT