[QUOTE=dougpine;23733]And to your point about illiterate captains, the best mentor I ever had in the GOM could barely speak, let alone read or write, but he could find his way up and down the Atchafalaya River in pea soup fog, and find any rig anywhere out there like no one I ever met. It was eerie. A sixth sense he had. He didn’t know a damn thing about the book side of navigating, he just did it. I don’t think I ever saw him look at a chart, let alone mark it up. I learned more about running the river and twin screw / bow thruster boat handling from him than from anyone else I ever sailed with. He was 76 years old when I sailed with him and had spent most of his life on those boats, from the beginning of the oil patch. I’m not making a case for being illiterate, I’m just pointing out that there is more to the job than knowing how to make pretty pictures on a chart.
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Don’t agree with you about much but this absolutely correct.