Motor Boating and Sailing what's your experience?

[neale]

Posting on another thread I thought it would be interesting to see how many of us have some level of experience of the other side of the fence. I know that RYA quals do not automatically translate to experience, but it is a way of measuring to some extent the level of experience we have. You only get one vote so tick the highest level you have achieved in the other discipline.

The questions obviously relate to practical courses

Poll is coming................

 

[Kawasaki]

Poll is coming................

Yer missed one
I am a Certified Motorboater and have sailed with Searush

 

[neale]

Yer missed one
I am a Certified Motorboater and have sailed with Searush

From what I have heard you would need to be certified

 

[Robin]

Hey! I can't vote! I taught dinghy sailing and racing in the '60s, have loads of dinghy trophies, a few big boat ones, have cruised under sail around 70,000 miles and I now own a 47ft mobo to cruise the USA.

But I don't have a single certificate, unless you count one for swimming 25yds when I was four! That poll is as biased as a Salmond referendum.

 

[JKay]

From what I have heard you would need to be certified

Should you not post this poll on Scuttlebutt as well to get a balanced view

 

[DAKA]

Should you not post this poll on Scuttlebutt as well to get a balanced view

Since when has scuttlebutts provided a balanced view

 

[neale]

Hey! I can't vote! I taught dinghy sailing and racing in the '60s, have loads of dinghy trophies, a few big boat ones, have cruised under sail around 70,000 miles and I now own a 47ft mobo to cruise the USA.

But I don't have a single certificate, unless you count one for swimming 25yds when I was four! That poll is as biased as a Salmond referendum.

I did think about another option of no certificates but lots of experience but run out of room. We only get 10 options!

 

[DAKA]

Posting on another thread I thought it would be interesting to see how many of us have some level of experience of the other side of the fence. I know that RYA quals do not automatically translate to experience, but it is a way of measuring to some extent the level of experience we have. You only get one vote so tick the highest level you have achieved in the other discipline.

The questions obviously relate to practical courses

Poll is coming................

you missed off the Internationally recognised International certificate of compliance or doesn't that count ?

 

[JKay]

Since when has scuttlebutts provided a balanced view

 

[JKay]

you missed off the Internationally recognised International certificate of compliance or doesn't that count ?

You get that free with Cornflakes from Tescos

 

[neale]

Should you not post this poll on Scuttlebutt as well to get a balanced view

Done

Since when has scuttlebutts provided a balanced view

you missed off the Internationally recognised International certificate of compliance or doesn't that count ?

Dam!

 

[Robin]

you missed off the Internationally recognised International certificate of compliance or doesn't that count ?

COMPETENCE dear boy, competence. I got one of those.

 

[Kawasaki]

you missed off the Internationally recognised International certificate of compliance or doesn't that count ?

Oh no he didn't
It's an International Certificate Of Competence

 

[DAKA]

You get that free with Cornflakes from Tescos

Yeh but dont tell the foreign clots who keep letting me loose on their boats

 

[l'escargot]

You missed out quite a few options - I am a sailor and I've got ICC Power, Powerboat Level 2, Powerboat Intermediate, Powerboat Advanced, Cruising Helmsman and PWC Proficiency.

 

[Searush]

I have a swimming proficiency badge from 1957 & my Sea Scouts "Anchor" badge do they count?

I have a sailboat that motors a lot cos I can't be arsed close tacking when on my own & Kwacka will tell you what progress we made against wind & tide in the Straits! We went smartly cross to the other side & back again about a dozen times but never out of sight of the pub. Great fun it is too.

 

[rafiki_]

I started as a sailer in dinghy's, then windsurfer as a penniless student, then Sunsail yachts in the Solent, then a BT Global Yacht, before becoming a motorboater, who still loves the occasional sail. Can't vote in Neal's poll though coz I don't fit any of the categories.

 

[deborahann]

you missed another, I am good at cooking food at sea & can put ropes and fenders out.

 

[ChattingLil]

We both did PBII at the yacht club we belonged to. It was subsidised by the club so that all members could use the launches and safety boats. I would have thought that was quite common at clubs - maybe not.

 

[Lakesailor]

progress we made against wind & tide in the Straits! We went smartly cross to the other side & back again about a dozen times but never out of sight of the pub. Great fun it is too.

Bloody typical. Zig-zagging dangerously in a channel. I bet you didn't have your underwater lights on either.