"JN" wrote in message . ..
Now you're qualified to take me for an evening sail next summer when I spend
my annual week in the Keys and serve me a glass of wine when I demand it,
serve me a snack when I want it, and in general put up with all my garbage
because I won't give a tip if you don't ?????

Huh, cappy wappy? Is that what your paper gives you permission to do?


Thats the OZ yachtmaster ticket you must be talking about. I hear the
only pratical test a "yachtmaster" has to take, is how quick he can
get his knee pads on and off. Here in the USA licences are for working
mariners.

If you ever acted like that on any vessel I ran we would of stuffed
you in the anchor chain locker in ruff seas. You would be stacking
chain till you passed out and were buried in it. You better stick to
your lubbery ways on a cruise ship were you belong, not a real ship
were you earn, not buy, respect.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

We work cheap! $100 bucks a day and no benefits.
Must buy our own insurance and pay for our own
drug tests. There are way too many captains available.

S.Simon


"Joe" wrote in message om...
(Shen44) wrote in message ...
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From: "Simple Simon"
Date: 12/22/2003 17:04 Pacific Standard Time
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Oz1 wrote in message ...

Nah, he can take you for a motor...no sail endorsment :-)


You had better read up, little one, as you are
wrong. I need no sail endorsement to take
paying passengers out for a sail in my
blue water voyager, "Cut the Mustard".

Please consider the fact that my Coronado
is an uninspected passenger vessel and I am
a licensed Operator of Uninspected Passenger
Vessels as well as being a Master of inspected
passenger vessels.

Poor Oz- bitter and discourteous as well as
demonstrably ignorant. Tsk, tsk!

S.Simon



Even the yacht harbor water taxi's I've seen, won't hire anyone with less than
a 100 tn license. Your license is nothing, if you can't use it.

Lots of fishing outfits in the gulf hire 25gters to run party boats.
Why a water taxi would need a 100 ton captian is beyond me. Must be a
supply and demand thing.

Joe

Joe wrote:



Even the yacht harbor water taxi's I've seen, won't hire anyone with less than
a 100 tn license. Your license is nothing, if you can't use it.


Lots of fishing outfits in the gulf hire 25gters to run party boats.
Why a water taxi would need a 100 ton captian is beyond me. Must be a
supply and demand thing.

Joe

G Either you've got a bunch of real small "party boats" down there, or
some N.A.'s who really know how to play the GT game.

There are many places where small vessels are the
rule rather than the exception. Take the Florida
Keys, for example. There are small head boats,
ecotour boats, snorkel/dive boats, water taxis,
etc. that average thirty feet or less. There are
a couple of head boats in the fifty foot range
that require a 100GT or greater license but
those are few and far between. The greatest
number of charter boats are those used for
'back country' fishing trips. These are outboard
powered skiffs and captain hired by rich folks
who like to fish. The Six Pak license is ideal for
this. Fact be known more dollars are earned here
under the auspices of the OUPV than all the other
licenses combined.

What does that make your license? Unnecessary and
of little use.

S.Simon


"otnmbrd" wrote in message link.net...


Joe wrote:



Even the yacht harbor water taxi's I've seen, won't hire anyone with less than
a 100 tn license. Your license is nothing, if you can't use it.


Lots of fishing outfits in the gulf hire 25gters to run party boats.
Why a water taxi would need a 100 ton captian is beyond me. Must be a
supply and demand thing
G Either you've got a bunch of real small "party boats" down there, or
some N.A.'s who really know how to play the GT game.

Never been to the Florida Keys, have you? Imagine this, a tropical paradise
in which everyone wants to live, but there are very few jobs. What to do?
They either sell t-shirts, wait tables, or take tourists out to the reef.
There are soooooo many people trying to make a living on the water down
there the captains will wipe your hiney-hole for you if you ask them.

Simple Simon wrote:
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Hear ye, all my fellow
USCG licensed Masters.

Barf ... you demean the title. You are neither a professional or a
master of anything.

It is your sort who bring ridicule to the American licensing system. You
are not now nor will you ever reach the standards of training and
demonstrate the competence required of an officer of the Merchant Marine.

You are a fraud and a wannabe. Your boat is a toy, a broken toy at that,
and your only command is a keyboard.

Rick

otnmbrd wrote in message hlink.net...
Joe wrote:



Even the yacht harbor water taxi's I've seen, won't hire anyone with less than
a 100 tn license. Your license is nothing, if you can't use it.


Lots of fishing outfits in the gulf hire 25gters to run party boats.
Why a water taxi would need a 100 ton captian is beyond me. Must be a
supply and demand thing.

Joe

G Either you've got a bunch of real small "party boats" down there, or
some N.A.'s who really know how to play the GT game.



Yeah they buy up aluminum surplus oilfield bay boats put rails on them
and wala. They still work the rigs. Plus alot of 6 pack type boats
that troll the gulf for big game.

Joe


carry about 15-20

Poor Rick demonstrates once again that he is
a bitter, broken and petty man.

One has to wonder just what his problem is.
Maybe a severe case of erectile dysfunction.

S.Simon




"Rick" wrote in message link.net...
Simple Simon wrote:
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Hear ye, all my fellow
USCG licensed Masters.

Barf ... you demean the title. You are neither a professional or a
master of anything.

It is your sort who bring ridicule to the American licensing system. You
are not now nor will you ever reach the standards of training and
demonstrate the competence required of an officer of the Merchant Marine.

You are a fraud and a wannabe. Your boat is a toy, a broken toy at that,
and your only command is a keyboard.

Rick

"Shen44" wrote in message
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Even the yacht harbor water taxi's I've seen, won't hire anyone with less
than
a 100 tn license. Your license is nothing, if you can't use it.

Does that really matter?


Don't people study, and take exams, just to learn about their subject?

Isn't is possible to use your license every single time that you go sailing?


Regards


Donal
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"Joe" wrote in message
om...
"JN" wrote in message
. ..
Now you're qualified to take me for an evening sail next summer when I
spend
my annual week in the Keys and serve me a glass of wine when I demand
it,
serve me a snack when I want it, and in general put up with all my
garbage
because I won't give a tip if you don't ?????

Huh, cappy wappy? Is that what your paper gives you permission to do?


Thats the OZ yachtmaster ticket you must be talking about. I hear the
only pratical test a "yachtmaster" has to take, is how quick he can
get his knee pads on and off. Here in the USA licences are for working
mariners.

Joe, it appears that you know as much about the Yachtmaster qualification as
you do about international affairs.

One of the tests involves sitting at the chart table, with the ports blacked
out, and predicting your position to within a few metres.

In other words, you have to sail (and navigate) the boat "blind".

Do you have to do this for the USCG ticket?



Regards


Donal
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