[QUOTE=KennyW1983;72352]Were here, we are just waiting for all you fogies to croak so we can move up!![/QUOTE]
Being polite here…
You couldn’t tie my shoes. So don’t hold your breath! But I am more than happy to share my knowledge and train anyone who shows an honest, dependable work ethic. Unfortunately I have not found too many of those.
I don’t throw out ‘get out of jail’ cards easy. (although, I have thrown one, it is not undeserved)
[QUOTE=cappy208;72350]So by that survey about 25% of us are about ready to kick off. Time for some new blood.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=KennyW1983;72352]Were here, we are just waiting for all you fogies to croak so we can move up!![/QUOTE]
NOBODY is ever ready to be a tugboat captain until they have BEEN a tugboat captain for a couple of years.
Tugboatin’ is ONLY learned by OJT.
[QUOTE=c.captain;72293]Actually the term Z Card stems from before the time that the USCG used a SSN as the mariner identifion number. Prior to that, a mariner’s ID # was preceeded with the character “Z” hence where the term originated. I don’t know when that change occurred but know it was in the later half of the 70’s. My first MMD had my SSN so I don’t get to claim being that effing old![/QUOTE]
I was issued my first Z-card in Dec 69 at the age of 16. it must have been in the later '60s when the SS# were used. Most everyone I sailed with had Z#s. Mine was my SS#. Back then you were issued a temporary Z-card and in about 6 months you received the permanent card stamped “validated for emergency service”. Some of the guys had Continous Discharge Books in stead of Z-cards.
WOW! That’s alot of docs!
I knew i should have thrown that smiley face in there!
I have worked with lots of good captains over the 10 years i have been working on the water, i try to take the best out of all of them and keep it for myself. I have also worked for a few tyrants who had zero supervisory skills couldn’t handle a boat worth a shit and thought they were gods gift to the sea, i also took something from them… How not to act. Like seadog said no one can be a tugboat captain until they have been a tugboat captain. I know i have a lot to learn, i bet even you old fogies learn something now and then!
I guess i should be happy you commented before c.capt did!
I left Piney Point with a half sheet sized temporary MMD. It had a photo and the Baltimore REC USCG stamp. Stapled to it was a USCG stamped letter saying I had passed Testing and was a certified lifeboatman. It was good for 180 days I got my 180 and went back to Piney Point for QMED classes. Since it was past due I had to surrender it. Once I passed my QMED tests I was issued my first oversized laminated hard card. On the front highlighted in yellow just below my SS# was a five year expiration date. This was in 92. I remember the year before when I was a trainee they would would randomly select people out of classes and send them to Washington DC. They would dress them out in SIU gear and have them testify before different congressional committees about how it was an unfair tax on the working man. I think they were just mad because they weren’t getting a taste of it.
[QUOTE=KennyW1983;72399]I guess i should be happy you commented before c.capt did![/QUOTE]
You’re aces in my book son…keep pluggin and you’ll do fine but one more crack about you waiting for us old farts to kick off and out comes my pointy stick (not the regular Mk.III diesel one mind you but the Mk.V gas turbine powered one!)