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Apr 26, 20093 min read
2-Watch System Or Bust!
For those of you who missed it, here’s an extremely interesting and important article by Dom Yanchunas in Issue #121 of Professional...
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Apr 17, 20094 min read
Size Does Matter
Well, it sure does if excessive “size” renders mariners incapable of performing the various emergency response duties required of them or...
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Mar 21, 20092 min read
More on the MMC Final Rule
I was intending to post again about the Coast Guard’s Merchant Mariner Credentials and Licenses communique from Mr. Jeffrey Lantz, the...
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Mar 18, 20093 min read
The Coast Guard Responds!
So, it would appear that maybe when the volume gets turned up loud enough the Coast Guard IS able to respond in some fashion. Below, in...
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Mar 15, 20095 min read
Coast Guard Needs To Get Their Hearing Checked…..
This should get your new work week started on an upbeat note: Coast Guard blows off mariners yet again! But here’s the critical question:...
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Mar 12, 20091 min read
CG REC Appointments Online? Yes!
As promised late last year, the Coast Guard’s National Maritime Center (NMC) now offers a new online appointment feature, accessible...
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Mar 9, 20093 min read
Tugboat Licensing Tonnage: Tons Of Misunderstanding
Due to the large number and specific nature of internet searches that have lead net-surfing mariners to our website, it’s time to...
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Feb 21, 20091 min read
Federal Pilotage Requirements
An updated and expanded version of our Federal Pilotage Requirements flyer has just been added to the Sea Time page, along with a new...
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Feb 16, 20093 min read
Radar Endorsement Follow-up
In the past, like many of us, I sat for my radar renewal and then submitted the certificate with my license renewal application. I did...
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Feb 13, 20093 min read
The Radar Observer Endorsement “Final Rule” Not So Final
I’m in the process of renewing my mariner credentials and, as we’re all aware by now (or should be), the regulations for radar observer...
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Dec 29, 20082 min read
NVIC 4-08 And What It May Mean To The Working Mariner
I have the pleasure of starting the renewal process for issue #7 this January. At five months prior to my license’s expiration date, I...
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Dec 23, 20084 min read
The Tugboat Hawespipe & Other Routes To The Wheelhouse.
Numerous e-mail queries indicate that there is still confusion on the routes to the wheelhouse of a tug or towboat. Hopefully this will...
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Nov 16, 20085 min read
Hit the Deck!
You can read it in the forums at gCaptain and Tugboatlife, the Mail Bag in Workboat magazine, and I get more than my share via email:...
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Nov 9, 20082 min read
How old to be the “Old Man”?
One of the really good things about WordPress is the comprehensive statistics they provide about site traffic. We’re able to see exactly...
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Oct 31, 20084 min read
Tugboat Pilotage 102
In Tugboat Pilotage 101 the subject was confined to inspected coastwise tank barges and the requirement that they be under the “command...
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Oct 26, 20085 min read
Tugboat Pilotage 101
This is an important yet frequently misunderstood subject for masters, mates and pilots of towing vessels, but I’ll try to make this as...
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Oct 23, 20082 min read
Direct Supervision: It Means Exactly What It Says.
A question I’ve been asked many times over the last five years has been “What do they mean by ‘direct supervision’? Does that mean I...
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Oct 1, 20082 min read
TWIC Enforcement Schedule
Here is the Coast Guard’s current rolling schedule, broken up by Sectors or Captain of the Port zones, for the phasing in of enforcement...
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Sep 29, 20081 min read
Medical Guidelines For Mariners: notice of availability.
Today the U.S. Coast Guard published a notice of availability in the Federal Register for the new Medical & Physical Evaluation...
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Sep 24, 20083 min read
Is Mariner Health Just A Pipe Dream?
In light of the potential for unforeseen consequences because of the new Coast Guard medical NVIC, a little background is in order. The...
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