This photo is a joke take on what I know is a huge responsibility. I am now deemed to be competent to be the commercial master of a 12 metre vessel up to 15 nautical miles out to sea with 12 passengers and a monstrous great engine.
So many of you have supported me in different ways and of course I have much more to learn (especially practical engineering). It is great to be going to sea on SV Pelican next week to put some of this book work into practice, but that will be the topic for another post.
* Peter Barnes of the nameless Farr 6000, You have helped me so generously with maintenance and passing on your many years of experience, close manoeuvring skills and so much more plus those sea time stat decs.
* Jim Marco of Intention, you taught me so much aboard Intention in Vanuatu and Fiji, wrote references and stats decs and always had words of encouragement.
* Peter Styne, your reference from Marine Rescue Byron Bay impressed the Maritime Authorities.
* Hariet Woodrow, Commodore of Big River Sailing Club, you wrote a supportive reference.
* Gary McKecknie of Pelican, you completed stat dec forms for my sea time and now are taking me on as crew - thanks.
* Graeme Richardson of Double-o-Seven who trained me for my day skipper some years ago. You generously scanned the stat dec form and returned it from Sweden
* Peter Thorne and Helen Vorrath of Nahani, you completed a great reference for sea time but when it wasn't acceptable in that format you redid it as a stat dec.
* Helen Tom who wrote and confirmed I was master on Cloud, a bare boat charter
* Rae Wills who completed a stat dec confirming my sea time on One and All and Apollo 111
* Sally Gearin who also wrote confirming we were masters on a bare boat charter Big Pictures
* Brad and Rhett, my TAFE Ballina lecturers who were so supportive throughout
* Dave and Ben of Maritime Safety Queensland who went out of their way to help overcome bureaucratic hurdles.
* Finally my ever supportive ocean swimming friends who bought a cake to celebrate my success and sang "happy coxswain to you".
Thanks to all I have named above. Thanks also to other masters who I have been unable to contact, especially the masters of Angelique, Amadeus, Eagle Rock, Jean de la Lune, Soren Larsen and One and All; you all appeared in my sea time assessment.
So many of you have supported me in different ways and of course I have much more to learn (especially practical engineering). It is great to be going to sea on SV Pelican next week to put some of this book work into practice, but that will be the topic for another post.
* Peter Barnes of the nameless Farr 6000, You have helped me so generously with maintenance and passing on your many years of experience, close manoeuvring skills and so much more plus those sea time stat decs.
* Jim Marco of Intention, you taught me so much aboard Intention in Vanuatu and Fiji, wrote references and stats decs and always had words of encouragement.
* Peter Styne, your reference from Marine Rescue Byron Bay impressed the Maritime Authorities.
* Hariet Woodrow, Commodore of Big River Sailing Club, you wrote a supportive reference.
* Gary McKecknie of Pelican, you completed stat dec forms for my sea time and now are taking me on as crew - thanks.
* Graeme Richardson of Double-o-Seven who trained me for my day skipper some years ago. You generously scanned the stat dec form and returned it from Sweden
* Peter Thorne and Helen Vorrath of Nahani, you completed a great reference for sea time but when it wasn't acceptable in that format you redid it as a stat dec.
* Helen Tom who wrote and confirmed I was master on Cloud, a bare boat charter
* Rae Wills who completed a stat dec confirming my sea time on One and All and Apollo 111
* Sally Gearin who also wrote confirming we were masters on a bare boat charter Big Pictures
* Brad and Rhett, my TAFE Ballina lecturers who were so supportive throughout
* Dave and Ben of Maritime Safety Queensland who went out of their way to help overcome bureaucratic hurdles.
* Finally my ever supportive ocean swimming friends who bought a cake to celebrate my success and sang "happy coxswain to you".
Thanks to all I have named above. Thanks also to other masters who I have been unable to contact, especially the masters of Angelique, Amadeus, Eagle Rock, Jean de la Lune, Soren Larsen and One and All; you all appeared in my sea time assessment.
