Since we most of the times worked for 18 to 24 hours straight thru per day how much sea time can I get credit for on an un-inspected fishing vessel on the Bering Sea?
The vessel documentation certificate states there are no restrictions in regards to sea time.
or Maybe I should word the question this way:
In regards to credit towards sea time, I am wondering if the days are counted as 8 hours only or if I can document 12 hour days, since we would always work that many hours in a 24 hour period.
The ship I worked on is 198 gross ton un-inspected fishing vessel, crab fishing in the Bering Sea[I].[/I] Did that for most of my life it seems. Been the Green Horn and deckhand and recent years the Captain for a little while up there.
everything is based on the mandated watch structure of the vessel. As far as I know there are no uninspected fishing vessels under 300grt that have any watch structure requiring licensed personnel so if you don’t have any licenses on the vessel and no legal watch rotation then I believe all you can get is what is allowed in the Small Vessel Sea Service rules.
If your fishing vessel was over 300grt and had a licensed master and mate, then as a two watch vessel you would be able to get the 1 1/2 day seatime credit.
I believe that all uninspected vessels only require a master and mate except for towing vessels on voyages of over 600miles which also require a 2nd mate. I know they did change the manning rules for fish processing and catcher vessels over a certain tonnage and number of personnel aboard to carry ABs but to the best of my knowledge all still only require two licensed deck officers.
I also came from king crabbers and vessel’s under 199 ton’s. You will get 1.5 days for every day you worked over 12hrs. I was captain/engineer for years and before that deckhand/engineer. If any of your sea time is a dual position like mine was you can only use half of the days for your application towards a mate or half for engineer. So during your deck hand days you obviously had many wheel watches, so have your sea time state deck hand/mate or deck hand/engineer depending which way you want to go. When I went in to apply they told me I could get a 500 ton master or assistant engineer limited,DDE any hp and assistant engineer uninspected fishing vessel. Most of my sea time was as captain but I went the engineer route instead. Hope this helps
I was wondering if you could get time worked as a processor counted as sea time? I’ve worked at least 365 16 hour days onboard a factory trawler as a processor all around the Bering Sea. Does anybody know or know where find out?
[QUOTE=saltedsea;117192]I was wondering if you could get time worked as a processor counted as sea time? I’ve worked at least 365 16 hour days onboard a factory trawler as a processor all around the Bering Sea. Does anybody know or know where find out?[/QUOTE]
Of course being a processor does not count as time towards anything other than to be an OS/wiper/FH…Sheesh, where do they come from? Go to the NMC website to look up what qualifying seatime is!
Whoa!!! Not so fast! I just had a kid sailing as mate on one of our ferries who got ALL his sea time gutting fish on a processor up in Alaska. I agree that it doesn’t seem right, but it is usable sea time.
I was in class with a girl that was getting ready to sit for 3rd Mate. She was a AB with MSC an all she had ever done was drive a fork lift. Had only been to the bridge once or twice to look out the window. These are the ones that screw it up for the deserving ones
[QUOTE=c.captain;117237]Of course being a processor does not count as time towards anything other than to be an OS/wiper/FH…Sheesh, where do they come from? Go to the NMC website to look up what qualifying seatime is![/QUOTE]
Hey C.Captain. I saw your boat down here in Fourchon. That pumpkin colored one. Thing needs work. you probably dont have much time to work though seeing how your more interested in being on the web posting negative replies everywhere.
Im also on a factory processor over 200 gross tons in the Bering Sea. Most of time we are on anchor. I was wondering if you can earn sea time, while on anchor, or do you just earn it, while underway? We work 10 months on, 12 hour shifts. This is my first post, trying to get answers about earning sea time. Thanks in advance.