You mean this part::
(h) Day.
(2) On [vessels] authorized by [46 U.S.C. 8104]) and [46 CFR 15.705], to operate a two-watch system, a 12-hour working [day] may be creditable as 1 1/2 [days] of service.
If so, have already posted it.
Don’t feel too bad. There was a guy who found the statement about “absolute minimum 4 hours”, and was pissed off he wasn’t credited for 3 “days” for his 12 hour watch.
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So the issue is that they listed each hitch separately instead of just giving a grand total of days?
I’m very aware of this as I’m currently in the (ii) section. However don’t know if OP’s voyages are more than 600 miles, that was why I wrote what I wrote.
The NMC would have no way of knowing that. They see sea time on a tug and the letter says 12 hour days and they give 1.5 days of credit.
And his issue isn’t that he’s not getting 1.5 days for his 12 hour days anyway.
Arguing is much better than snarking. This is usually a “safe place”.
Actually they can if the seatime letter says voyage/route of the vessel. I remember the brief time on a SubChapter M vessel that the seatime letter mentioned the voyage/route(Louisiana, Caribbean, South America). Recently while being onboard a SubChapter L it swapped to SubChapter I, which they gave me 8 hrs days event though I was working 12 hrs. So I’m assuming the NMC evaluator gave him 8 hrs instead of the 12 hrs thinking 4 hrs as OT. At the end we are not NMC evaluators, we are just speculating and exercising our first amendment.
As for OP would just have to keep working or keep arguing with the evaluator. In my case I decided to keep working.
That’s a stretch. They see “tugboat” and “12 hour days” and that’s it.
Incorrect. That’s not what this post is about.
No it ain’t a far stretch at all.
So he is not adding his half days and…
I cannot believe this much ado about nothing original post about the NMC not counting fractional days, grew such legs. With so much incorrect blather about a different topic.
To understand why the U.S. Congress is the way it is, look no further than this forum…
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He was counting them but the NMC was not.
Example:
His letter says he has multiple hitches: 14.5 days, 14.5 days, 21.5 days, and 21.5 days (instead of adding them all together and just saying 72 days) and the NMC is calling that 70 days instead of 72 days.
Like I said two options :
Keep working or Keep arguing with the evaluator…