Here is the text of the manual, so without images, I don't see how to incorporate them too easily.
Nonetheless, it gives an idea.
General
The New Horizons add-on contains eight new vessels, of which two have a different way of controlling the engines and steering. The cruise ship and the modern tug are equipped with azimuth thrusters and rotating propellers. The propeller rotation replaces the need for conventional rudder blades behind fixed propellers. How to steer these vessels is explained in the following sections.
Another new vessel is the pushboat, which can be connected to four different barge combinations.
To connect the pushboat to a barge, a new icon was created under the Moorage icon, Barge. How to use this icon is explained in section 3. You can visit the engine room of the pushboat, as shown in image 4.
Controlling the cruise ship
Starting a free-roaming session with the cruise ship "Ocean Star" in the new Padstow environment will look like image 1.
Controlling the cruise ship with azimuth thrusters. Moving the cursor over the thruster control brings up several circles. The green circle is used for setting the forward thrust, the red circle for the reverse thrust, and the blue inner circle is used for setting the thruster rotation. You set the forward thrust by click-dragging the cursor up and down in the green circle. Similarly, you set the reverse thrust by click-dragging the cursor in the red circle. Lastly, you set the direction of the azimuth thruster by click-dragging the mouse left and right in the blue circle. This is best done in the bottom half of the blue circle.
To facilitate the steering, an adapted arcade mode was created for cursor steering. Cursor left will turn both thrusters 45 degrees left. Cursor up will (like always) set the engine at full thrust. So a combination of cursor left plus cursor up will set both engines full forward, rotated 45 degrees left, which will make the vessel turn right, since the thrusters are located at the back of the vessel. The simplified arcade steering mode conflicts with joystick steering. For joystick steering, an extra option was created, "Azimuth Arcade steering override".
Many more experienced players will prefer to use keyboard steering using the Precision steering setting under Settings - Controls. With this option, you can set the thruster power and rotation more precisely, and keep it in position after releasing the cursor keys. As always, you can map different keys for the port- and starboard engine, for maximum maneuvering control.
Controlling the modern harbour tug
The modern harbour tug "Bugsier 2" is also equipped with azimuth thrusters. These are controlled in a similar way to the cruise ship, with two important differences.
1. The azimuth thrusters of the tug cannot be set in reverse position. Instead, you have to rotate the thrusters around to reverse.
2. The thrusters are located at the front of the vessel, instead of at the back. Rotating them 45 degrees left will therefore make the vessel rotate left (port) instead of right, like the cruise ship. This is something you need to get used to.
Image 2. Bugsier 2 in Padstow. This thruster cannot be set in the reverse position. Instead, to reverse, you
need to rotate the thruster 180 degrees, by dragging the mouse left/right in the blue circle.
As with the cruise ship, the simplified arcade steering mode conflicts with joystick steering.
For joystick steering, tick the new option under Options - Controls, "Azimuth Arcade steering override".
Connecting barges to the pushboat
To connect the pushboat "Herkules Atlas" to a barge, a new icon was created under the Moorage icon, Barge. Starting a free-roaming session with the pushboat will show the vessel with one barge (image 3).
Image 3. To connect or disconnect a barge from the pushboat, click on the Moorage icon, then on Barge. Like with towing lines, clicking on the red cross will disconnect the barge. Clicking on a blue circle on the pushboat, and then on a blue circle on the barge, will create a connection between the two.
Visiting the pushboat's engine room
The pushboat is the only vessel in which you can visit the engine room. You can do this in walkthrough mode. Walk down the stairs to the lower deck. On the starboard side, you can enter the door to the engine room by clicking on it. When you come close to the right door, an icon will show up with a down arrow (image 4).
Image 4a. Engine room door of the pushboat. Click on the door to go into the engine room.
Image 4b.Inside the engine room. Image 4c. To go back up, click on the hatch in the corner, which shows the up arrow when you get close.
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