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Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 02-02-2024, 07:46
Replies: 81
Views: 9,163
Posted By MC2019
Re: Captain's License vs ASA 105 course

navigating amongst rocks is part of being a captain, I have done it in panama, alaska, and canada ......

Comes with the territory, the BBG incident had many things that were involved with it. ...
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 22-01-2024, 08:07
Replies: 81
Views: 9,163
Posted By MC2019
Re: Captain's License vs ASA 105 course

Well I have my 200 ton captains license, have been a past ASA, ussailing instructor, currently a nauticed.org sailing instructor. Unless you going to do some commercial stuff, just doing the ASA...
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 09-02-2023, 10:28
Replies: 8
Crew Wanted: Captain
Views: 1,633
Posted By MC2019
Re: Captain

let me know, 200 ton captain, mechanical engineer, good with kids, have sailed many multi hulls, including lagoon 45, crowthers 42, gemini 105's, F-28r, frederys 49

full fledged sailing instructor...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 16-01-2023, 10:11
Replies: 136
Views: 15,347
Posted By MC2019
Re: Do I Really Need a Life Raft?

If you are more than 300 nautical miles from a USA USCG station that has a helicopter, yes you need a certified ocean raft ..... that is my rule, if inside 300 miles I just use emersion suits .........
Forum: Marine Electronics 13-01-2023, 10:19
Replies: 279
Views: 28,064
Posted By MC2019
Re: Why even bother with a plotter when you can get this!

As a delivery captain who has done 98k miles, 6 hawaii deliveries, panama canal, alaska, caribean, and the east and west coast. I can tell you that and devoted MFP at the helm station is a dood...
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 12-10-2022, 07:13
Replies: 22
Views: 10,514
Posted By MC2019
Re: Honolulu to Seattle...

for sure will do a summary and post afterwards
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 10-10-2022, 22:35
Replies: 22
Views: 10,514
Posted By MC2019
Re: Honolulu to Seattle...

Its not my first crossing the pacific, of my last 5 pacific deliveries, 3 of them where under the high ....

Its not my fault that we are doing this in the fall ..... but its doable by doing the...
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 10-10-2022, 21:37
Replies: 22
Views: 10,514
Posted By MC2019
Re: Honolulu to Seattle...

I get to do this with a baltic 38 next month :)
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 10-10-2022, 21:04
Replies: 183
Views: 12,922
Posted By MC2019
Re: WE'RE RACING!!!!!!

is what it is :)
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 10-10-2022, 16:54
Replies: 19
Views: 1,830
Posted By MC2019
Re: Dyneema and “recovery ring” LFR’s

I buy stock materials and make them myself :0
Forum: Navigation 10-10-2022, 16:48
Replies: 82
Views: 12,054
Posted By MC2019
Re: Touchscreen Tablet / Computer for cockpit

bad idea, the MFP's provided by vendors have gone through validation .... even then the B&G we had on green flash, with every wave that hit would pan to japan ..... we stopped using it sailing from...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 07-10-2022, 08:26
Replies: 40
Views: 3,764
Posted By MC2019
Re: Pulling new halyard using existing one

thread and needle
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 06-10-2022, 15:13
Replies: 3
Views: 709
Posted By MC2019
Re: Wanted Part Time Captain Miami Beach

sent PM
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 06-10-2022, 15:12
Replies: 7
Views: 1,179
Posted By MC2019
Re: Delivery Captain: Maryland to Florida

quite available, sent PM I beleive
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 06-10-2022, 15:11
Replies: 3
Crew Wanted: Experienced captain
Views: 513
Posted By MC2019
Re: Experienced captain

available and just sent you a PM
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 06-10-2022, 15:08
Replies: 6
Views: 1,120
Posted By MC2019
Re: Fire risk of portable devices equipped with lithium batteries

Its important first off that charging of those lithium batteries should be done while being observed, like do it in galley or at chart table where people would see or smell it ......
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 03-10-2022, 13:57
Replies: 43
Views: 15,415
Posted By MC2019
Re: remote jobs ideas from a boat

Some day I will go cruising on a larger sailboat, the avon is my work boat ....
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 03-10-2022, 10:40
Replies: 20
Views: 3,606
Posted By MC2019
Re: Can I anchor my boat anywhere in Lake Ontario (Toronto)?

yeah if you have enough rode you can anchor almost any where, question is always whether you should ......
Forum: Our Community 03-10-2022, 10:39
Replies: 8
Views: 617
Posted By MC2019
Re: Nautical chart measurements???

I do nautical chart measurements all the time in my delivery business. My coastal explorer has a distance graph on the left side, just use my fingers as protractors and measure distance, can also be...
Forum: Navigation 03-10-2022, 10:29
Replies: 90
Views: 11,500
Posted By MC2019
Re: AIS question for the experienced

I carry a AIS transponder, vesper 8000 in my delivery business. Saved our bacon numerous times, reprogram it for each vessel and cary a handheld VHF programmed with the MMSI number. Have the...
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 03-10-2022, 09:54
Replies: 43
Views: 15,415
Posted By MC2019
Re: remote jobs ideas from a boat

besides being a delivery captain and mechanical engineer with a seat of solidworks. I also am going to look at becoming certified diver and welder. Thinking I could cary a welder and dive...
Forum: Our Community 03-10-2022, 09:52
Replies: 12
Views: 1,311
Posted By MC2019
Re: How to log my GPS location once an hour.

I just run a log book, give me and the crew something to do writing in the log book. Able to scan the log book when insurance called me about damage to a boat, that was owners fault ultimately.
...
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 03-10-2022, 08:35
Replies: 43
Views: 7,520
Posted By MC2019
Re: AIS versus PLB - a dumb question

I have been a delivery captain for 8 years, have a Fast Find 220 PLB .....

Thank god I have not had to use it, but it does function as an EPIRB in my delivery business .....
Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear 02-10-2022, 20:05
Replies: 43
Views: 7,520
Posted By MC2019
Re: AIS versus PLB - a dumb question

wrong PLB is an EPIRB with less battery life than a ship board
EPIRB.
Forum: Crew Positions: Wanted & Available 02-10-2022, 15:19
Replies: 6
Views: 835
Posted By MC2019
Re: 200 ton USCG captain, looking for work

customers/work
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