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The ignorance of the so-called professional captains is astounding.
All the so-called professional captains continue to embarrass themselves
by refusing to read and understand the COLREGS. They show their stupidity as well by not understanding the definition of a motor boat. Fact: any aux/sailboat when its motor is running, no matter whether it has sails up or not, is a motor boat according to the Rules. This means that a 25GT Master of Steam or Motor Vessels Near Coastal does not need a sail endorsement to carry passengers for hire unless and until the motor is turned off and the vessel is operating under sail alone. Even then it's a gray area because all one need do is keep the steaming cone up and you are still considered a motor boat by any and all vessels you may happen to come across. The simple act of displaying the cone makes your Master of Steam or Motor Vessels license all that is needed to be legal. The cone makes you a motor boat. The only time you cannot be a motor boat is if you have no motor installed. Then flying the cone is not legal because it's a lie. The Master of the vessel is the person who decides if his aux/sail vessel is a sailboat or a motorboat and not the courts and not the Coast Guard. Just to make the case 100 percent watertight all the Master need do is just keep the motor turning over at an idle and there is no lie. Everything is on the up and up according to the definitions in the Rules. No court in the land can decide any different without misinterpreting the Rules. Rick is clearly an idiot and so is Shen44 and otn if they fail to see these simple facts that represent the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Rick wrote: "You are NOT a master of sailboats of any sort. You are not a professional sailor." Wrong! I am Master of an aux/sailboat because an aux sailboat with the motor running is a motorboat and a motorboat license if appropriate for its operation. Rick further embarrassed himself by writing the following gem: "The funny part is that Nil hangs all his claims to fame and status on being a sailor of sailboats and loudly and continually condemns all powerboaters as some sort of subspecies." Wrong again! I have always maintained that I studied for and obtained a Masters license mostly for the knowledge gained and not to make a living with it. It allows me to legally do a little work on the side in BOTH my aux/sailboat and my Boston Whaler. It also allows me to keep honest you ego cases who live and breath motorboats only. You just hate the fact that a single-handed sailor who lives aboard and actually goes places knows as much as you do and passed the same tests you took probably with better scores to boot. S.Simon Master of Steam or Motor Vessels of not more than 25GT upon Near Coastal Waters, also Operator of Uninspected Passenger Vessels upon Near Coastal Waters not to exceed 100 miles offshore. |