Fixture. This project is invented — an imaginary client, imaginary prose, placeholder boxes at true aspect ratios. It exists so the design structure can be looked at with content in it. No real project is in this repository, and none may be until it is signed off and the export gate exists.

Harbour

Berth allocation for a working port, rebuilt around the sheet the crews already trusted. Kestrel Port Authority, 2015 to 2017.

ApproachThe berth

One morning's allocation, written out by hand before any of it reached a screen. Vessel down the left, berth across the top, and the pencil marks are the negotiation.

The board itself, mounted where the tugs could see it from the water. Two of the vessel names have been removed at the authority's request.

2:23

A shift handover recorded with the crew's permission. The whole system was designed against the two minutes and twenty-three seconds it takes to hand over a berth list.

DeliveryWhat held

Allocated by arrivalAllocated by draught

The last card written before the board went digital, kept by the harbourmaster and photographed on his desk.

Berth 4. Vessel due 06:40, draught 8.2, pilot booked. If she is late past 07:15 the berth goes to the next in line and the harbourmaster is told, not asked. Nothing on this card is a preference. Every line is a rule somebody argued for, lost an argument about, and then wrote down so it would not have to be argued again.