You know what. I’m wrong and I was misunderstanding you. I agree with you. I’ve worked both limited and unlimited tonnage and I agree with your assessment of the skill sets required for each. The thing that also really changed my tune was looking at the requirements for 1600ton and 3M UL. Pretty much the same tests. Sea time, roughly the same. You’re right, there should be an upward crossover. I will say that I don’t think this hypothetical crossover would raise the limited tonnage wages necessarily. It would just add mariners to a shrinking pool of unlimited tonnage jobs. But that’s a different topic.
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