Lift Boats

I’ve been running liftboats for the past 11yrs. I hold a 1600t/3000t ITC Masters. But with the larger Liftboats coming out 300’ and above to run one of these you need a 6000t Masters. How do you go about upgrading to 6000t’s and not have to run a bigger OSV or something simular. To do this all Liftboats Masters wanting to get on the bigger L/B would probably have to quit there present job and find a company who will hire you knowing that when you get the sea time you will go back to runnng L/B’s.

Does your company have one of these 6000ton liftboats? If so will they let you get on one of them as a training Capt? Some our Captains went to those boats as DPOs or training status just to do the Assessments and 90 days to get the 6000 Ton ITC endorsement.

chemcarrier
sorry I didn’t get back sooner. was out of pocket for awhile. But to answer your questions, No, the company I am working for doesn’t have anything of that size yet. I was just trying to find out how to go about getting a 6000t endorcement

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