One of the captains on my fishing boat has a chief mate unlimited license and says he was told he can’t get his master unlimited unless he gets a year of sea time on an inspected vessel. Is this true? I looked in the cfr’s and it did not say anything about that. His time is on a 7000 ton ocean going …

https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/NMC/pdfs/checklists/mcp_fm_nmc5_02_web.pdf

instead of just posting the checklist maybe explain what you think it proves? understand that the checklist is just guidelines, not the actual law.

I have seen no requirements for the vessel to be uninspected in the sea service requirements under 46 CFR 10.232 or requirements for national licenses. Only that you have to show details of the vessel to determine applicability of STCW or SOLAS. There are notes on the 2nd page of the national Mast…

[image] Quimby: I don’t see why you can’t use sea service on an “uninspected” vessel of the appropriate tonnage towards upgrading an unlimited national license. Same here. The catch will be that he’s currently sailing as Master and he can’t use that sea time to upgrade from Chief Mate to Mas…

Thank you so much for all your input, he sails as chief mate/relief captain for most trips and had over a years worth of sea time in that position. He said the coast guard told him he needed a year of masters time on an inspected vessel which made no sense to me at all. I will let him know tomorrow …

[image] Capt_Phoenix: [image] Quimby: I don’t see why you can’t use sea service on an “uninspected” vessel of the appropriate tonnage towards upgrading an unlimited national license. Same here. The catch will be that he’s currently sailing as Master and he can’t use that sea time to upgr…

[image] Quimby: For the STCW part, for upgrade to Master of vessels 3000GT or more you just need to prove 36months of time as OICNW. It says you can reduce that time if you served as Chief Mate. You also have to hold the corresponding license to get that STCW endorsement, so if you can’t get…

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Capt_Phoenix June 8, 2018, 7:55am 4

I don’t see why that would be true, there’s no requirement for it to be inspected (though fishing time may be put under extra scrutiny).

What he can’t do is upgrade to Master Unlimited with sea time as master.

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