Amazing. Neal started a thread on captains and having real licenses.
Yet my friend who just bought a Catalina 30 has a captain's license and
hasn't sailed anywhere. Her sister also passed and got the license and
she can't sail at all!!!!

But my buddy who has done more crossings of the Atlantic than all of
you combined has no license and continues to get work doing deliveries.

What a joke the captains license is. It implies nothing, means nothing
and is no assurance of safe operations of a boat.

10 years of sailing in near-coastal waters and not one injury onboard
my 3 sailboats...and literally hundreds and hundreds of guests.

I'm the safest sailor here! And I'm the captain of my vessel by every
definition. The rest of you are frauds for the most part since you HERE
posting every hour on the hour! Shame on you.


CAPTAIN Robert B
35s5....the slickest boat on Alt.Sailing.Asa
NY

"Capt. Rob" wrote
Amazing. Neal started a thread on captains and having real licenses.
[snip]
What a joke the captains license is. It implies nothing, means nothing
and is no assurance of safe operations of a boat.

Well, it means something, just not that much.
Several years ago I was onboard the USS Truman and met Capt. Otterbein.
I know the difference of which you speak.
Capt. Scout

I thought you hurt your back wrestling the Ghost girls aboard your boat.



"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
oups.com...
Amazing. Neal started a thread on captains and having real licenses.
Yet my friend who just bought a Catalina 30 has a captain's license and
hasn't sailed anywhere. Her sister also passed and got the license and
she can't sail at all!!!!

But my buddy who has done more crossings of the Atlantic than all of
you combined has no license and continues to get work doing deliveries.

What a joke the captains license is. It implies nothing, means nothing
and is no assurance of safe operations of a boat.

10 years of sailing in near-coastal waters and not one injury onboard
my 3 sailboats...and literally hundreds and hundreds of guests.

I'm the safest sailor here! And I'm the captain of my vessel by every
definition. The rest of you are frauds for the most part since you HERE
posting every hour on the hour! Shame on you.


CAPTAIN Robert B
35s5....the slickest boat on Alt.Sailing.Asa
NY

That would not be possible, since sea time is a requirement.

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"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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Amazing. Neal started a thread on captains and having real licenses.
Yet my friend who just bought a Catalina 30 has a captain's license and
hasn't sailed anywhere.

Capt. JG wrote:
That would not be possible, since sea time is a requirement.

He thinks a license is something you get from the Power Squadron.

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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I'm the safest sailor here!

CAPTAIN Robert B
35s5....the slickest boat on Alt.Sailing.Asa
NY

Easy for you to say, you never leave the dock.

Bwaahhahahhahahhahahahhahhahahhahhahahhahahhahahha hhahahhaa

John Cairns

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message oups.com...

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| | I'm the safest sailor here!

It stands to reason that you're the safest sailor here - you don't sail.

CN

Ah....

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"Jeff" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
That would not be possible, since sea time is a requirement.

He thinks a license is something you get from the Power Squadron.

Capt. Rob wrote:
....
10 years of sailing in near-coastal waters and not one injury onboard
my 3 sailboats...and literally hundreds and hundreds of guests.

I doubt you have any "near coastal" time. Certainly LIS does not
count as "near coastal," its strictly inland.

I'm the safest sailor here!

How do you figure this? You've taken a few friends out for a few
hours in protected waters a few dozen times.

I've been sailing almost 50 years and never had a crew injured. This
includes several years on the inter-collegiate circuit, 6 years
instructing in dinks, numerous New England trips from NYC to Down
East, and several for the entire East Coast. Never needed more than a
bandaid, and while living aboard, never had a serious illness. Also,
I've never had an insurance claim on any boat.

My sister-in-law did have a near-death experience the first time we
gybed on the Nonsuch, buts that's another story.

Actually, this is more or less common for most of my friends. I do
have one friend, though, who seemed to need at least one emergency
room trip every year. He would routinely whack someone with a gybe -
this was one reason why an overhead traveler became high on my
priority list. A typical incident (non-boating) for him: he was
working under his car where the front was on jack stands, and managed
to short the starter. The car jumped off the stand and crushed his
hip, keeping him in a hospital bed for three months. Now that I think
of it, after that he bought a large Beneteau. I haven't seen him for
a few years, but I doubt his "luck" has changed.




CRAPTAIN Robert B
35s5....the sickest boat on Alt.Sailing.Asa
NY

"Jeff" wrote in message

I've been sailing almost 50 years and never had a crew injured.

I view that statement in the same manner as "I've never run aground".....
accidents happen no matter what steps are taken to avoid them.

I can't begin to count the stubbed toes, cuts, rope burns, fingers jammed in
the sheets around the winch, hand slammed with the cockpit lid... and that's
just me!

Oh BTW... I've hit bottom an embarrassing amount of times. [ Till I learned
to turn off the sounder, since then.. nada]

I think both you and Bob are taking liberties with historical data... :-)

CM