Maggie's Farm

Everybody's a newbie at first. I used to hire big anchor-handling supply vessels to work with our offshore drilling rigs, 15,000 hp typically, about 300 ft long. When you're on the bridge, there are 2 sets of chairs, one facing forward for use when under way, the other facing rear overlooking the huge equipment deck. At the rig, the captain uses these to back in the vessel and wait as the rig cranes work the decks, supply load up, returning loads down. He'll stay there in nearly all kinds of weather, on station, for hours. Usually they'll use dynamic positioning which ties the ship's computer to navigation satellites to maintain station under the cranes. But sometimes currents, winds, and seas are fickle or circumstances require the captain uses his skillset on the joystick. Amazing to watch. Nobody has patience like that without many years of experience: Nudge the joystick, wait, watch. Nudge the joystick, wait, watch. Same coming into port, it might take an hour to bring the vessel alongside at the loading quay.

All newbies over-react and over-correct at first.