Greetings all, this is my first post after having followed other posts for some time, I am a inland seas sailor (Great Lakes) and I have an AB-Special and enough time to upgrade to unlimited etc, but with the job market shrinking on the Great Lakes and my desire to sail new waters has opted me to look at going deep sea, however I am learning that outside of the Great Lakes an STCW is required basically everywhere. While I am familiar with what it is, I cannot seem to locate a place that offers the complete package that either isn’t ridiculously expensive, or that is really far away which negates the cost savings of their more affordable course prices. I am willing to travel anywhere in the continental US, from Minnesota in order to take this course, but I am looking for places preferably close by that offer the STCW so I can get work on the costal and deep sea fleets. I have tried various google searches and have come up with the star center, and other top searches, but I am looking for everything and not just the super popular ones. I want quality obviously, but im looking for a good balance of affordability as well. If anyone can answer its the folks here. Thanks and I hope to be pointed in the right direction of a good location to take my courses ASAP. Happy New Years to my fellow land and sea sailors.
What exactly do you mean by “STCW”?
[QUOTE=Capt. Phoenix;152868]What exactly do you mean by “STCW”?[/QUOTE]
Standards for Training and Certification of Waffleheads of course
sheesh! don’t you ninnies know nothing?
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[QUOTE=sh71382;150800]Happy New Years to my fellow land and sea sailors.[/QUOTE]
Land sailors? Would those be truck drivers?
No truck drivers here however…we executed them all
[QUOTE=sh71382;150800]Greetings all, this is my first post after having followed other posts for some time, I am a inland seas sailor (Great Lakes) and I have an AB-Special and enough time to upgrade to unlimited etc, but with the job market shrinking on the Great Lakes and my desire to sail new waters has opted me to look at going deep sea, however I am learning that outside of the Great Lakes an STCW is required basically everywhere. While I am familiar with what it is, I cannot seem to locate a place that offers the complete package that either isn’t ridiculously expensive, or that is really far away which negates the cost savings of their more affordable course prices. I am willing to travel anywhere in the continental US, from Minnesota in order to take this course, but I am looking for places preferably close by that offer the STCW so I can get work on the costal and deep sea fleets. I have tried various google searches and have come up with the star center, and other top searches, but I am looking for everything and not just the super popular ones. I want quality obviously, but im looking for a good balance of affordability as well. If anyone can answer its the folks here. Thanks and I hope to be pointed in the right direction of a good location to take my courses ASAP. Happy New Years to my fellow land and sea sailors.[/QUOTE]
Inland Seas??? Did you visit the exotic foreign ports of Thunder Bay, Hamilton, and Montreal populated by savages speaking in strange languages ? Did you bed the impoverished, desperate local women by simply giving them bars of Lux soap and a bag of apples?
[QUOTE=Heat Miser;152877]Solutions for Terminating Chemical Warriors!
horribly great movies! he’s missing his deadly mop!
[QUOTE=lm1883;152917]Thunder Bay is one of the better ports up there, and Montreal ain’t shabby either. I mean it’s no Fouchon, but…[/QUOTE]
Ah Fourchon! Now there is a mariner’s liberty port if there ever was one! What stories I can tell about the ladies and drinks I’ve enjoyed there.
WHAT THE FUCK HAS JOE BOSS DONE TO OUR PROFESSION?
Doesn’t Great Lakes Maritime do STCW classes? That’s probably the closest for you.
STCW is Standards of Training , Certification anf Watchkeeping for Seafarers. Its a rule book that seems to change daily for the trainig required to sail. For a full AB Unlimmited and ASD international endorsement you will need to take a Lifeboatman/FRB class as well as get your RFPNW which is restricted by tonnage so you will have to be on a vessel of over 100grt in order to get signed off on those assesments. You will also have to get the basic STCW classes out of the way, water survival, cpr/first aid, basic fire fighting etc. You can do it all in a classroom setting with the exception of the seatime requirements tied to the RFPNW assesments which if you take the simulator corse would be 90 days. MPT in Ft Lauderdale offers the most complete course load in the South. Price, not cheep. Double check with the CG to make sure nothing more has been added since the new implementation. Good luck.
Port Fourskin is a place of shear beauty. Visit once and you will always want to leave, women and wine are not for the taking and even if they were you’d better leave them alone.
why does some joker always have to be the nice guy and make all the fun go away?
Port Fourskin is a place of shear beauty. Visit once and you will always want to leave, women and wine are not for the taking and even if they were you’d better leave them alone.
now that is something which I most wholeheartedly agree with. There is not one single thing from the NoLa airport to the end of Highway 1 that is worth ever seeing in one’s life and in some ways, damages a person’s view of the US…that a place so hideous can exist in our great land!
Well said Thirds. OP, try SeaSchool in Bayou La Batre Alabama. I probably miss spelled that. Anyway, that school is more than likely the cheapest around. Fuck quality, just take the course at a credited school. It doesn’t matter as long as the school is legit.
I just returned yesterday and was saying same thing to myself driving in. Tough living down here. Another observation was the Bollinger yard in Larose- looked like a parking lot with mostly GIS boats stacked.
[QUOTE=c.captain;152982]now that is something which I most wholeheartedly agree with. There is not one single thing from the NoLa airport to the end of Highway 1 that is worth ever seeing in one’s life and in some ways, damages a person’s view of the US…that a place so hideous can exist in our great land![/QUOTE]Well, I HAVE had an interesting afternoon in the Queen Bee there in Raceland a time or two. Of course I never even entered the place unless I had a plane to catch in the evening. . . . . if I didn’t catch the plane, I am sure that I would have caught something else. . . . .
I have absolutely no difficulty in believing that…you sir are a barfly legend I cannot begin to hope to match for number of conquests before I become as old as you (which likely isn’t that many years away)
how do you pay your tabs btw…to the bars invoice you monthly net 30?
if I didn’t catch the plane, I am sure that I would have caught something else. . . . .
how do you know you didn’t? sometimes you can pick up a dread disease just sitting on the barstools in those dives…BEWARE ALL YOU YOUNG’NS, don’t end up another of the miserable creatures you see out there in the industry like cmakin and myself! We are just dead men breathing (breathing not being a continual condition either mind you…)
[QUOTE=c.captain;152990]I have absolutely no difficulty in believing that…you sir are a barfly legend I cannot begin to hope to match for number of conquests before I become as old as you (which likely isn’t that many years away)how do you pay your tabs btw…to the bars invoice you monthly net 30?how do you know you didn’t? sometimes you can pick up a dread disease just sitting on the barstools in those dives…BEWARE ALL YOU YOUNG’NS, don’t end up another of the miserable creatures you see out there in the industry like cmakin and myself! We are just dead men breathing (breathing not being a continual condition either mind you…)[/QUOTE]I survive now by not being such a barfly these days. . . . I haven’t even been in that particular joint since they reopened under a new name. I did notice the change, however. . . . .
We used to pick up and drop off the captain there for crewchange. Didn’t matter if it was 0600 or 1800 that place was open. On a different boat we picked up and dropped off a mate at Judy’s on Hwy 90 in Morgan City. When we picked him up he was usually passed out in the pop up camper on the side of the building. Dropping him off was like seeing the pope arrive. All the whores came out and would help him with his bags.
Back in the late '70s and early '80s. Fourchon was mostly tugs, a few utility boats and shrimp boats, supply boats seldom came in. There were the trailers, girls and beer, they were across from Napa and a little further down, the concrete slabs are still there, they had a VHF radio behind the bar so that boat crews could be called when the tugs got a job, Fourchon was a lot wilder back then.
[QUOTE=cmakin;152995]I survive now by not being such a barfly these days. . . . [/QUOTE]
say it ain’t so Joe?..SAY IT JUST AIN’T SO!
my vision of you is now utterly crushed…
Screw Fourchon! Head on over to Morgan City or Amelia to be exact. You are guaranteed to catch something there just by looking at the wrong stripper. I have never been in the clubs, but I hear it is true. Haha yea thats the ticket.
[QUOTE=c.captain;153038]say it ain’t so Joe?..SAY IT JUST AIN’T SO!my vision of you is now utterly crushed…[/QUOTE]Sorry to disappoint. . . . not that I don’t make occasional appearances. . . and I certainly have NOT taken the pledge. . . . I just don’t go out in public all that much anymore. . . .I most certainly DO enjoy a fine mixed concoction or a simple Makers Mark or two. . . with invited company that keeps me, uh, happy? There are always the infrequent wanderings of New Orleans’ less reputable sections. . . . among other places. . . and as I said in a thread a few weeks ago, I was seen in a very nautical western city some days back. . .in the company of an old shipmate from a very long time ago, when we were both very young men. . . and our attractive companions. . . time rolled back for a couple of hours that night. . .