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Originally Posted by socaldmax
It seems very odd to me that you wouldn't bother defending your own honor on the internet, but you've spent a lot of time defending the actions of the captain, whom you've never met.
One saying that is proven true over and over again: actions speak louder than words.
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The captain may not be on here “defending his honor” because he’s not aware of this thread or possibly not even this forum. Even if he is aware I could understand not wanting to get embroiled in this and getting his integrity questioned by strangers who weren’t there. Also, unless you use your actual name on here, nobody knows who you are anyway so why would you care that a made-up name that none of your friends know you by gets criticized on a forum?
I feel like the captain was pretty generous by handing over $260. If the crew
member with the
health issue and a PhD about had disclosed it over the
phone he could have educated the captain about his condition and presented his argument about why it wouldn’t be a hindrance and let the captain digest that info and make his decision before
money was spent. But by springing this on the captain at the last minute he hurt his credibility and put the captain in a tough spot. Whether potential crew travel just across town or from another continent shouldn’t affect the captains decision about what
health issues are not allowed on his
boat and since there was no prior agreement to pay for any transportation, the captain was generous to pay way beyond what was agreed to.
As for the issue of accepting responsibility that you’ve brought up, the OP needs to accept responsibility for not disclosing his condition in a timely manner. He’s amassed a lot of knowledge about his condition and has had time to get comfortable with it and he may well be right that it should be a non issue, but he also needs to understand that when he
sails as crew that is not his call to make so he needs to begin to educate captains about his condition as soon as possible so they can have time to possibly get comfortable with it.