The 25 ton Near Coastal Masters is fine. I have the sail endorsement,
radar and towing - all I need.
Oh yeah? Well, I went fishing today, so there! :-)
Don't ask me what we caught... grumble
--Mike
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Tim wrote:
On Feb 17, 3:35?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
Tim wrote:
http://www.marinersschool.com/
Get a Capt. license with no USCG exam.
is this like getting a medical diploma from the University of
Bohmvobia? ? ?send us the money, we send you the diploma!
???
It's like anything you do - you get out of it what you put into it.
A lot of the USCG testing is done by organizations like this. ?Some
teach their test, some teach the material and test against it.
You can learn a lot in these classes, but they are so condensed that you
? end up reviewing every once in a while just to keep the knowledge
ready.
I took the USCG exam years ago before the sea schools and from what I
understand, it's a lot harder than these tests. ?It's a matter of degree
? - how much is considered acceptable in terms of error and what not.
It's one thing to be able to pass the test - it's another to have the
sea time to qualify for a particular level license. ?I know guys who
have 100 ton licenses and own a 20 foot bass boat. ?As long as you can
document a friend's boat as "experience", you can qualify.
It's an odd situation. I used to have a 100 ton license, but I
downgraded the license to 25 tons because I never used the 100 ton
license. ?The nice thing is that I have good endorsements which is all I
ever wanted to achieve when I first started on this path years ago.
now that you mentioned it, why the downgrade from 100 to 20 t.?
I can understand the usage, but is there an extreme cost difference
with maintaining the status?
Not really. I could get the recency time because one of my family members
owns a tug/barge combination and I could always get time on that everytime
it went out. It wasn't hard to keep current with the requirements.
The 25 ton Near Coastal Masters is fine. I have the sail endorsement,
radar and towing - all I need.