On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT), "
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On Sep 1, 10:56*am, wrote:
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Does NOT cover PWC's! Read it again, but more slowly this time.

Man, why the vitriol? I've been impressed with your knowledgeable,
helpful and well presented cruising tips in another thread. I'd
welcome the same kind of conversation here.


Sorry, your first response inthis thtread came across as a very smug,
"USCG cert means I know everything attitude. It was all downhiill from
there.

It seems to me that you're shifting ground and I hate to get drawn
into it but just for clarity. You said that: "You need a Safe Boating
Certificate in CT. A Master Mariner's ticket doesn't cut it." The
citation I linked to states that a person who has a US CG license does
not require a "Safe Boating Certificate". The SBC covers all cruising
boats and their support craft except for PWCs, so for r.b.c readers it
is likely the pertinent cert.

It is true that CT also grants a Certificate of Personal Watercraft
Operation. The CPWO allows users to operate PWCs as well as vessels
covered by the SBC. The CPWO is not the SBC which is the ticket I
thought we were talking about since it covers virtually all cruising
vessels and since you used that specific term. It does appear from
the wording in the CT book that CT doesn't accept a CG lic. in place
of a CPWO. While I suspect that CT does not have the authority to
require federally licensed mariners to get a CPWO I don't actually
care very much. The only thing you need a CPWO for in CT is PWCs and
I don't have any desire to PWC in CT and doubt that many other
cruisers do either.


I sense a post from PWC Cruiser, Rich Forman, coming along shortly!