T&T: 20 Year-Old Ferry Captain Heroine

[Pascal Gademer]

for the 6 pack and 100T, a day is 4 hours under way in a 24 hour period.  if 
you run 18 hours in one day, you can only count one day. If you run 3 hours 
on saturday morning and 3 hours back on sunday night, you're out of luck.

for the  6 pack, there are no size requirement...  you can rack your time on 
a 11' whaler if you want.

For the Master, the rules are a little more detailed when it comes to size. 
Generally, you get 1.5 times the tonnage you have at least 50% of your time 
rounded off to the next license.  Ex... if you have a 35GT trawler (about 
45'/50'), you will get 35 x 1.5 = 52, rounded off to the next level which is 
100GT.  If you have a 15GT boat, you'll get 15 x 1.5= 22, rounded off to 
25GT... etc...

But if most of your time is on a smaller boat and you only have a fraction 
of your time on the larger vessel, that time will not count, they will base 
it on the smaller tonnage...

For the 100 to 200GT masters, it's a little different... i dont' have the 
rules handy... once you pass the 200 T exam, you will get a 125, 150 or 200T 
license depending on your experience.  for instance if you have enough time 
on a boat between 50 and 100T, you will get 125T, etc... to get 150GT you 
need time over 75 or 100GT (forgot the details)

Note that you dont' have to log the time as captain, you can be crew...  Now 
if someone can explain to me how a deckhand can rack up time to qualify 
without ever driving and navigating the boat, I'd love to hear the logic 
behing it.

just like i'd love to understand the logic behind this scenario...  A guy 
who goes drift fishing jsut outside the boundary for 5 hours a day in an 11' 
whaler will be able to log all that "sea time"...  Another guy, who'd take 
his 50' sportfish to bimini leaving saturday morning and coming back sunday 
night, twice a month for 10 years, woudl legally not be allowed to log a 
single day because the trip is under 4 hours and not done in a 24 hours 
period.

makes no sense to me...

pascal


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffrey Siegel" <jeff at activecaptain.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: T&T: 20 Year-Old Ferry Captain Heroine


>> 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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