"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:17:50 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

Probably not. I read the regs probably way-too-strictly to ever
qualify with 360 days at sea. I still say that there isn't any real
wiggle room in the standard that a day of sea service consists of
eight hours *underway*.

Technically, any time can be considered 8 hours. I have that direct
from an MSO. Also, time on the water can be substituted for the
stricter 8 hour nonsense. If you have 30 years of large boat
experience, and can prove it, that kind of eliminates any question
about your necessity of having recency and the 360 hour nonsense. I
also have that direct from a CG Examiner.

Although I agree with you about the schools. Some of them are license
schools.

Talk about teaching a test. :)


I took the course at one of those schools in Ft. Lauderdale one winter that
we were in Florida. (I was planning on doing charter fishing trips on the
Egg Harbor with my brother when we returned to MA in the spring).

Although I passed the test (almost impossible to flunk) and was coached on
how to report the "hours", I lost interest in chartering and never
completed the rest of the licensing process. Kept the syllabus/course book
though and it comes in handy sometimes.

Eisboch