Former USCG Licensing Experts assisting Mariners

[cajuntugster]

@"AB Murph"

Are you kidding me? Your the stupid captain I wouldn’t want to work for. You would rather spend 4 days reading the manual yourself then have the Engineer fix something? Use your resources my man.

I’m not supporting whoever they posted at the top in the OP. Just that its not a bad idea to have a pro do your stuff when you are moving up. If you have been holding the same lic. for 15 years and all you are doing getting a new issue thats one thing. For folks starting out though the CFR’s can be just over whelming. Heck, even to the guys that have been doing this forever have problems with what’s in the CFR’s but they can drive a boat and manage their people.

You remind me with your post of the muscle beach guys. You can’t use my equipment if you can’t lift 500 pounds all the while forgetting that you started out by lifting 100lb.

If I needed something fixed today of course I would tell the engineer to just do it. Assuming I knew how that repair would effect my vessel status; etc If I knew it was going to be a month or more before starting a project I would do research and make a plan. If you don’t do the resarch how do you have any idea what you are elidgable for or if you have the time etc? BTW when the office wants to know why the eff that boat can’t move, "I don’t know,I told the cheif to fix it " will not cut it.