[QUOTE=Number360;142325]…the 1600 master is going to change with the new rules. I forget which way it goes but one or the other will be no more. It will either be 500/3000 or 1600/3000 master if you hold the one that is being eliminated you will receive the other one automatically upon renewal.[/QUOTE]
[U][/U][B][/B]This is not correct.
About 4 years ago we proposed grandfathering all holders of 500 GRT licenses to 1600 GRT and not issuing any new licenses for 500 GRT, the service requirements for 1600 GRT licenses would have been changed (lowered) to what was then required for 500 GRT. That proposal was the subject of many comments opposing it and it was abandoned. That was NOT in the last version of the proposed rules, and it is definitely not in the new rule. The only changes in the new rule to the service requirements for 500 GRT and 1600 GRT endorsements was the deletion of “equivalent” I mentioned above, and to allow Great Lakes service to count for all of the required service (it had been 25%)
[QUOTE=Number360;142325]No, but a 1600 mate qualifies as a 100 ton master. [/QUOTE]
They don’t “qualify” as Master for less than 100 GRT, but a Mate for over 200 GRT can serve as Master of a vessel less than 100 GRT. Subtle but substantive dfference.
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[QUOTE=Flyer69;142327]Please quote the CFR that validates this statement?[/QUOTE]
46 CFR 15.901 applies to the first statemnt about the “equivalent” of a Mate for over 200 GRT serving as Master on a vessel less than 100 GRT… The second can’t be validated because it is wrong.