OK, this might be a good point for me, a relative newcomer to boating, to
ask what a "six pack" license entails, and why it is called a "six pack".

Steve H.


"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:33:02 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

he said that he wasn't a Captain
- just a guide. (I have no interest in the charter business - the
course would be something to fill time over the winter).

It piqued my curiosity how he got around the requirement to have a
license and according to him, he doesn't need a license to take a
customer on his boat because the customer is hiring him and not the
boat. His reasoning is that the boat is merely the method to get
where they are going - he doesn't need a special license to take his
truck to a remote stream or lake, so why would he need one for his
boat?


This is a rationale existing only in the mind of this "guide."
Federal regulations consider that a passenger for hire is any person
who has contributed funds as a condition of carriage on the vessel.
These funds can end up in the pocket of any person having an interest
in the vessel and it is still considered carrying a passenger for
hire.

If you carry a passenger for hire, you better have some kind of USCG
license.

This guy might get away with this if he doesn't have *any* interest in
the vessel used, but I didn't read your question that way...

There *are* guide licenses, but to my knowledge they are all thinly
disguised state taxes and have nothing to do with federal DOT
requirements. Oh, yeah, DHS, now, too....

Go get that 6-pack. ....................Uh. license, that is.....

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