On Apr 1, 9:39 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in messagenews:43v2v3tokbhgqes5tet3ep33hnko8ebrfr@4ax .com...



On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:16:08 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:36 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:44:03 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:58:34 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:36:18 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
|
|On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:18:45 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
|following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
||On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:19:51 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
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||On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:18:46 -0400, BAR penned the following well
||considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
||
|||Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
||| Guess what? We are now required to have aTWIC.
|||
||| As it's known in moron land - Transportation Workers
Identification
||| Credential.
|||
||| Doesn't matter if you don't actually work in the Maritime
Industry or
||| require Port Facilities access, you gotta get one.
|||
||| Hones to pete.
|||
|||http://twicinformation.tsa.dhs.gov/twicinfo/index.jsp
|||
|||Do you get one of them fancy TSA like uniforms too?
||
||The silly thing is that the only difference in the documents
required
||to get theTWICand my OUPV/Masters is the additional $132.50. The
||last time I renewed, they even took a digital picture and
||fingerprints. They have the information, this is just another dig
for
||money.
||
||Mine's up for renewal in May 2009 so I haven't gone through the new
||process yet.
||
||I did the whole preenrollment thing for examination process and the
||online form kept kicking my application out because I hadn't filled
||out the employment section. I called the hot line and explained the
||issue and the lady, very nice by the way, asked me why I needed the
||TWIC. So I told her the whole deal and she laughed, took care of it
||and presto - all done.
||
||I don't know if you are aware of this, but it's $105 if you have a
||current license issued after May 31, 2005.
|
|Yeah, I renewed last Summer, so I should be good for the lesser fee.
|My "pre-enrollment" hasn't hit the computer yet. I may just "walk-in"
|in Wilmington, since I don't have to make that long pilgrimage to
|Charleston.
|
|I thought I was going to have to go to Boston, but apparently there is
|an examinination/issuing center in New London.
|
|Hell of a lot better than going to Boston. :)
|
|I have to admit, the online thing is pretty slick - bada bing, bada
|boom - you are done.
|
|Well except for the employment thing that is. :)

How soon were you able to log in after you pre-registered?

Immediately. Got my appointment for enrolling in the program slicker
than a pig in slop.

Crap. Mine musta barfed.... I'll try again.....

A couple of guys in my fishing club had that happen.

I guess it depends on when the computers update the registrations.
Give it 24 hours.

Friend of mine went to the Shell Refinery yesterday. Temporary office with
a 9:30 appointment. Gets in at 11:30. one person at the desk. All the oil
refinery workers need to get atwiccard as well as the truckers. Then you
have to go back when you get the card to get in activated.

It's a fairly simple process, but a stupid idea to require me to have
both the TWIC and a Master's ticket to take people out for hire on my
boat on Lake Superior. All in the name of homeland security, I'm told.

So tell me, how is licensing people like me going to prevent evil-
doers from doing evil? It's like saying that drunks have to possess
valid licenses or they can't drive.