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captd
Joined: 06 Nov 2003
Posts: 514
City/Region: Chain of Lakes
State or Province: MT
C-Dory Year: 1994
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Kon Tiki
Photos: Hunky Dory
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| DaveS wrote: | Taking an OUPV course and passing it sounds appealing for the experience and for gaining knowledge......however, if an individual has no intention of actually utilizing the credentials, I would not take the course.
The way I look at it, it is just like some individual spending several thousand dollars, one intensive year of his/her time to become a paramedic and then never be employed as one. They therefore lose their certification. (Maybe, you don't lose the OUPV if you don't use it, but without using it, you might lose the skills that were learned).
Claiming time spent on a canoe with an electric trolling motor would be like following a medic rig around on a bicycle with an electric motor and claiming that as experience. (Perhaps, not the best analogy, but I'm hoping that the point is well taken). |
Lots of salty old boaters want everyone to get some kind of boating license. They bitch about the green horns not knowing what the hell they are doing out on the water.
I know one Senator that is a medical doctor. I wonder if he would give up his sheep skin because he is politician. I am working on learning spanish and will probably never have need for it again. No more Mexico for me. Education is always a good thing. I am not the brightest bulb in the pack, but I'm am working on the problem. My spelling is proof.
captd
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100 ton Master
1986 Sport Craft 27 ft , 240 hrs Yanmar sold
2000 22 ft C-Dory (Hunky Dory) sold 2006
2007 25 R Ranger (Mis Dee) sold 2008
2009 25 R Ranger (Lucky Fin) sold
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JamesTXSD
Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 7445
City/Region: from island boy to desert dweller
State or Province: AZ
C-Dory Year: 2007
C-Dory Model: 25 Cruiser
Vessel Name: "Wild Blue" (sold 9/14)
Photos: Wild Blue
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| captd wrote: |
Lots of salty old boaters want everyone to get some kind of boating license. They bitch about the green horns not knowing what the hell they are doing out on the water.
I know one Senator that is a medical doctor. I wonder if he would give up his sheep skin because he is politician. I am working on learning spanish and will probably never have need for it again. No more Mexico for me. Education is always a good thing. I am not the brightest bulb in the pack, but I'm am working on the problem. My spelling is proof.
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Now if they could just come up with some sort of "spell check" for actions on the water!   |
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