OzOne wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:58:26 -0800, "Capt. JG"
scribbled thusly:


Ozzy, you're welcome to join. :-)


The club.....Nah, I don't like the captain :-)


TO which might be added: the 25t etc qualification here
doesn't entitle anyone to be called Captain. Coxswain, yes.
Skipper, yes. But you need to be up into the merchant
equivalent of at least a naval Lt-Commander to warrant the
honorific. And strictly, into the real brass-hat area before
anyone takes it seriously. "Captain"=Post Captain, COlonel. A
samall ship master ("Coxswain") is only a short distance up
from the grunt squad.

Hell, even Flying Tadpole could get a coxswain's certificate
(or would have, until the present crop of work reduced the
average sea time!)

So if OzOne bucked for "Captain" to join the rest here, not
only would the newsgroup have a belly laugh, but all the
sailors in Sydney too!
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Flying Tadpole

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