Hmmm. As a long time GOL employee I’m a little lost for words. One one hand I’m proud that you think highly of the captains you work with and with the overall capabilities of the entire fleets personnel. I’ll be the first to tell you though that every company has its share of people whom have trouble handling the vessel, especially at C-Port 1. I promise you GOL has a few, I’ve seen them. I have to agree with C-Captain and say that while I don’t encourage DP use in port; to not use all available means to do the job in the safest possible manner is frankly stupid. I have not had to use DP to dock my vessel as of yet but who knows? I can tell you this though, if any captains doubt their ability to berth into one of the slips at C-Port 1 and decide to use DP while I’m in the next downstream slip I would probably compliment or thank them rather than criticize.
Just my .02