You were right , she's a runner

[909]

Recently restored a 15 for a friend.
He sent this to me saying " You were right, she's a runner "

 

[McGR]

Nice motor. But you bought the wrong cowling stickers!

 

[909]

Haha I swear he did that himself .

I think he works at a bank . He can't count

 

[oldboat1]

"allows" your banker friend to run on lakes limited to under 10 hp motors.

 

[909]

In our country we have no lake limitations

 

[saltchuckmatt]

In our country we have no lake limitations

In our state, boat under 16ft and motor under 10 HP no registration required.

 

[909]

Imagine if you could boat anywhere in the world , with your favorite boat / outboard combo. Where would you go ? It's 100% doable.

 

[Crosbyman]

in my country you need a boat operator permit (unless it is a canoe or row boat ) and most idiots get it by passing a test behind a keyboard via Internet and if you can't read ,write or type your buddy can fill in the blanks for you.

 

[racerone]

Agreed----This boat operator permit could be described as a " legal fake permit / license "-----You would hope that your airline pilots all have more than simulator hours to fly the big jets.

 

[airshot]

Agreed----This boat operator permit could be described as a " legal fake permit / license "-----You would hope that your airline pilots all have more than simulator hours to fly the big jets.

Flying an airliner is a piece of cake, most are self flying by a computor! A couple days in a simulator is all you actually need...until something serious happens!!!

 

[dingbat]

Training isn't everything........

Coast Guard faults pilot in Chesapeake Bay ship grounding

A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay is faulting the pilot tasked with helping the ship navigate the waterway.

apnews.com

Licensing requirements for a Bay Pilot.

All applicants must have Coast Guard licenses certifying them to be master or chief mate of any-sized ship.

New entrants spend two years as apprentices, accompanying senior pilots on both in transit and docking. Then comes a three-year stint as a junior pilot, guiding medium-sized vessels with drafts of 28 feet or less, and, later, deeper boats with drafts up to 34 feet.

Apprentices must complete more than 500 passages up and down the Bay and 30 with tugboats before they can sit for the exams to be designated full-fledged senior pilot.

Senior pilots must pass a spate of written and on-the-job tests and reproduce from memory 10 large-sized nautical charts covering the waters from Cape Henry to the head of the Chesapeake. “We give them a blank sheet of paper, with only the shoreline printed on it, and they have to fill in the buoys, the depth contours, the lights, the seabed characteristics, the wrecks, and any special regulations the chart contains.

Apprentices must complete more than 500 passages up and down the Bay and 30 with tugboats before they can sit for the exams to be designated full-fledged senior pilot.

 

[oldboat1]

geez. North of the bridge and probably south of the Baltimore light -- used to fish for rockfish and blues there. Hard to get a sense of how big those container ships are until you miscalculate and get up too close and personal.