T&T: 20 Year-Old Ferry Captain Heroine

[Jeffrey Siegel]

> The rule is not for 12 months service, but rather 
> for 360 days of sea time (at 8 hours/day).

I'm missing something with the sea time requirement for a 100T
license...

The way I read it, you need 720 days at sea.  Each day is 4-8 hours - so
I assume that a 24 hour day counts as 3 days?

Then 90 of the 720 days had to happen in the last 3 years.  That's easy
enough to understand.

And 360 of the 720 days had to be outside the coastal boundary (for a
near coastal license).

But what about vessel size requirements?  I read somewhere (but can't
find it now) that the sea time needs to be on a vessel of a certain size
- and it was fairly large for our types of trawlers - much larger than
my boat.

How is it that so many people get the sea time with our types of
trawlers?


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Jeffrey Siegel
M/V aCappella
DeFever 53PH
W1ACA/WDB4350
Castine, Maine

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