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[QUOTE=Capt. Phoenix;150576]Do any American seaman’s discharge books exist? It would be pretty simple to have the master sign and stamp your book each crew change…[/QUOTE]
The last continuous discharge book I remember seeing was about 1973. It was an option before 1970 or so to have either the Z-card or continuous discharge book.

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Merry Christmas to all…my experience in sea time letters has been simple it seems. in the 90’s they were on company letterhead properly dated, mariner info, boat info (doc #, tonnage, voyage area worked) and so on stating start-stop dates. At the bottom of these letters was served as ______ for ____days as ___. Then signed my master/or office representative. USCG has never given me any guff.
Still yet to present these letters are totaly acceptable and have been used for several renewals and upgrades over the years.

I am new at this forum format but will try and attache example for those who care. So I took a look and don’t get it, clicked on attache and it asked me for URL…we don’t have those or a least I haven’t ever needed to know about them while towing doubles out of Puget Sound and north to Unimak Pass. Sorry
I guess I’m old school. I can email them if someone wants to see the letters that I have been using for many years without complication.

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Would running to deep water gom rigs be coastwise or international? We mark “short international” on or cottage plans but how would that be on the discharge?

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Also, you can scan and email the discharge to the NMC (I’m guessing the ship is allowed to do this itself) thus reducing the paperwork burden on the office. All they would need to do then is file the discharge…

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[QUOTE=Capt. Phoenix;152869]Would running to deep water gom rigs be coastwise or international? We mark “short international” on or cottage plans but how would that be on the discharge?

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Also, you can scan and email the discharge to the NMC (I’m guessing the ship is allowed to do this itself) thus reducing the paperwork burden on the office. All they would need to do then is file the discharge…[/QUOTE]

Coastwise.

WTF is a cottage plan???