Simple Simon wrote:

How Nil "can call himself a mariner is an absurdity of a major
sort."

Let's look at what he brings to the dock:

A license good for a Whaler load of poor bemused and endangered
passengers but none of the other certifications required of legitimate
professional mariners.

A plastic trailer-sailer with a broken boom moored to an old engine
block in some Florida swamp.

A pedant's vision of the COLREGS based on sailing fantasies developed
while immersed in the fumes from his cedar bucket MSD.

H'mmm, that seems to be about all ...

He needs about a year's worth of training before he can even be a "one
tripper." I don't believe he can successfully complete it even if he
could afford it.

Poor pathetic internet wannabe.

Rick