Dra

aft Surve
ey: Proc
cedures and Callculation
n

The Draft
D
Survey procedures and
a calculatiion ascertainned as the foollowing seriies :
1. Reading th
he draftmark
k of the ship, which conssist of six (6)) points of drraftmarks, i..e.;
Fore, Midsship, and Aft
fter at both siides of the shhip,
2. Sampling and testing the sea watter or dock water densiity at the plaace where tthe
vessel floaats,
3. Determinin
ng of deducttible weightss by measuriing and sounnding of ballast tanks, fuuel
oil, fresh water
w
that existing onboaard at the tim
me of survey,,
4. Using Hyd
drostatic Tab
ble provided onboard to ccalculation.
Readiing the Drafftmark of th
he ship
Comm
monly, all ship
s
are designed with draftmark for workinng with Draaft Survey to
determ
mined their actual
a
weigh
ht. The drafttmark could be find at siix (6) pointss on the beloow
placess:

Forward Port Side (FP

View the
t Draftmark:

Use the small boat to go around the ship and get as near as possible to the draft mark for
best viewing. The surveyor should be read all above marks clearly, because reading the
draftmark is the first and most essential process. I am not saying that other processses is not
essensial, but this process is hard to do and involves many rules of conduct to gain the
correctness and accuracy of Draft Survey itself (I will post it later). The draftmark read is
recorded on the surveyor notebook, do not try to remember it or write down in your palm
hand. Its useless and un-professional.
Sampling and testing the sea water or dock water density
After reading the draftmark, directly engage with the sampling of sea water or river water
around the ships dock. Why? Because the ship draft will not be the same at different water
densities (at the lower density means the ship more sink and at the higher density means the
ship more float). Where as the water density is subject to changes which follow with water
tide that carrying different water salinity and temperature on to the ship dock. The sea water
density is indeed at density 1.025 and the fresh water at density 1.000. To determine the
density of water, we need the instrument named Hydrometer or Density Meter. Inserted the
Hygrometer on to the water sample on the Sampling Can or Tube, then we could check the
scale pointed on the surface of the sampling water. Records the water dock density as
survey data.
Determining of deductible weights by measuring and sounding
Deductible Weight could measure by sounding the tanks which used the Sounding Tape or
gauging the tank level by visual inspection. Any deductible weight such as Ballast Water,
Fresh Water, Fuel and Diesel Oil, and Bilges is notify to check. Records all in the survey
book includes with the density for Ballast and Bilges, and for Oil complete it with density
and temperature . The Fresh Water was at density 1.000.
View the Sounding Pipe:

Using Hydrostatiic Table pro

Raw Draft
ft Calculatio
on; Fore Meean or Fm = (FP+FS))/2, Mid Meean or Mm =
(MP+MS)//2, and Foree Mean or Am
A = (AP+
+AS)/2. whiile Apparentt Trim or A
AT
= Am Fm
m. the Apparrent Trim is the Trim thaat visually find.
Draftmark posision an
nd correctio
on to perpenndicular. As the ship drraftmark is nnot
placed at the perpend
dicular, the Fore and A
After draft sshould be ccorrected w
with
distance frrom the drafftmark to peerpendicularr. The correcction rules iis: if the Trrim
by Stern, th
he Fore corrrection shou
uld be minuss and After correction pplus, and if tthe
Trim by Heead (stem), the
t Fore corrrection shouuld be plus annd After corrrection minuus.
The Midsship correcttion is paraallel with tthe fore coorrection w
with the sam
me
pattern. So
ome Hydrosttatic table prrovided withh these correection result.. But if not tthe
reference pattern is for Fore Correction or Fc = ((Fd x AT) : LBM aand
After Correction or Ac
A = (Ad x AT) / LB
BM. Where Fd = Forre distance to
perpendicu
ular, Ad = After
A
distancce to perpenndicular, andd LBM = Leength Betweeen
Mark or Leength betweeen Fore and
d After draftm
marks or LB
BM = LBP (Fd + Ad).
True Drafft Calculatio
on / Draft Corrected;
C
F
Fore draft ccorrected orr Fcd = Fm
m+
Fc, Mid drraft correcteed or Mcd = Mm + Mcc, and After draft correccted or Acdd =
Am + Ac.
True Trim or TT : Actu
ual Ship Triim after drafft corrected oor TT = Acdd Fcd.
Fore and After
A
Mean Draft
D
or FAm
m = (Fcd + A
Acd)/2, Meaan of Mean D
Draft or MM
M=
(FAm + Mcd)/2,
M
and Mean of Meean of Meann Draft or M
MMM or Quuarter Meann =
(MM + Mccd)/2.
The abovee calculation
n is similar with
w : MMM
M = {(Fcd x 1) + (Acd x 1) + (Mcdd x
6)}/8.
Corespond
ding to the MMM or Quarter Meean result, thhe surveyorr could cheeck
the value of
o needed parameters
p
on
o Hysdrosstatic table llike; Displaacement, TP
PC,
LCF, and MTC.
M
Recorrds them acccurately.
Get the Displacement or
o Disp.

First Trim Correction or FTc = (TT x LCF x TPC x 100) / LBP. Could be plus or
minus depend on LCF.
Second Trim Correction STc = (TT x TT x MTC x 50) / LBP. The result always
plus (+).
Displacement corrected by Trim or DispT = D (FTc + STc).
Density Correction or Denc = DispT x {(Aden 1.025) / 1.025}. where the Aden is
Actual Density that surveyor has taken sampling and testing previously. The density
correction commonly in minus (-), due to the Actual Density is usually lower
than 1.025 (fresh sea water). In case of at some port where the water salinity is high,
the density correction could be plus (+).
And we have got the Displacement corrected by Density or DispDenc = DispT +
Denc. (after corrected by density we will get the actual ship weight as per shown
by Draft Survey)
Deductible Calculation. The same as draft, the deductible also need to
corresponding to the table that named Tank Table / Tank Capacity Table. Refer to
the sounding records that done before, the surveyor could be calculate the total
deductbile existing onboard. Total Deductible or Deduct = Ballast Water + Fresh
Water + Bilges + Fuel Oil + Diesel Oil, this total should be minus to the
Displacement corected by Density.
The Net Displacement or NDisp = DispDenc Deduct.
The Net Displacement is the actual ship weight after minus with deductible weight.
For Unloading, to estimate the quantity of cargo onboard, the Net displacement
should be minus with Light Ship and Constant.

I think difficult for the amateur writer like me to describe the complex narration of draft
survey calculation, but to make it clear, the sample of Draft Survey Calculation will be post
sooner or later.. :)
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