wadget
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As I said in the other thread - Dayskipper isn't a QUALIFICATION it is a Certificate of Competence - nitpicking it maybe - but gaining that cert of competence is down to the individual instructor.
Anyway - good on the DS who felt he didn't have the experience to helm - it could've been so easy to give in and take the helm anyway.
Its not a Certificate of competence its a course completion certificate. You have to take an exam for a COC.
But that's slightly irrelevant. The skipper shouldn't have attempted to go and the company shouldn't have let him.
However the fact they are previous customers of hot liquid says probably says something about the level of training they provide, even a day skipper should be able to realise that heading out into a 10 is a bad idea.