Yacht Owner’s Manual Blue Marlin 12mR
Winter, Hans (2019)
Winter, Hans
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019060414743
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019060414743
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12mR class sailing yacht from 1937, Blue Marlin, was re-launched after its restoration completed in 2014. The captain, electrician and the boat builder started inventorying, labeling and creating user guides for the vessel. During the writing process, a transition to a more comprehensive owner’s manual was deemed necessary by the captain who was foreseeing a problem with information distribution as the experts who had built the vessel were not the same people who supplied parts or sailed the vessel.
I was asked to write the manual as I was getting more involved with the vessels operations after its re-launch. I wanted to examine, how the project spiral design method works for designing and constructing a manual? I set two sub-questions for this research task. 1. How to delimitate contents for a manual in the spiral design process? 2. How to address the topic of user-friendliness in the spiral design process? I followed Barry Boehm’s (2000) software Spiral Design to guide my work and the International Electrotechnical Commission’s 82079-1 (2012) along with David McMurrey’s Power tools for technical communication (2017) to provide general principles and detailed requirements for the design and formulation of the manual. While writing the manual in accordance to the spiral design models steps, I used one on one conversations, phone calls, text messages, e-mails and documents to gather data, which I used to answer the research questions and to write the manual.
Key findings; Succesfull seafaring demands instructions. The quality and understandability of instructions enables operations to be executed to the principles and objectives of those instructions. A manual that contains these procedures is in an important position in regards to safety and proper executions of operations carried out at sea.
I was asked to write the manual as I was getting more involved with the vessels operations after its re-launch. I wanted to examine, how the project spiral design method works for designing and constructing a manual? I set two sub-questions for this research task. 1. How to delimitate contents for a manual in the spiral design process? 2. How to address the topic of user-friendliness in the spiral design process? I followed Barry Boehm’s (2000) software Spiral Design to guide my work and the International Electrotechnical Commission’s 82079-1 (2012) along with David McMurrey’s Power tools for technical communication (2017) to provide general principles and detailed requirements for the design and formulation of the manual. While writing the manual in accordance to the spiral design models steps, I used one on one conversations, phone calls, text messages, e-mails and documents to gather data, which I used to answer the research questions and to write the manual.
Key findings; Succesfull seafaring demands instructions. The quality and understandability of instructions enables operations to be executed to the principles and objectives of those instructions. A manual that contains these procedures is in an important position in regards to safety and proper executions of operations carried out at sea.