Skippers Qualifications

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Just to give you a bit of background, a few years ago, I phoned TCM from the Canaries, just for a little social catch-up. Being pissed at the time, it hadn't occurred too me that it was about 3:00am on a school night in TCM's neck of the woods. Ever since then, TCM has been promising to get me back for the early morning wake-up call and he did his best this morning.

Now as skipper of the good ship Mojomo, I would expect TCM to be familiar with such sciences as time-zones and UTC and if he really wanted to get me back, surely a call at 3:00 am and not 08:45am would do it?

Considering the above, does the panel think that he really is up to the job?
 
Very qualified

I am skiper because it's my boat, until i sell it, and so everything i say goes, unless there are better ideas about in which case we'll probably end up doing those ideas instead. I reckon that skippers don't get much more heavily qualified than this.
 
There's nuttin' about time zones in the RYA Dayskipper syllabus.... Probably 'cos Their Airships at Hamble Mansions don't imagine anyone clutching a crumpled DS sustificate is ever likely to encounter a foreign timezone.

Meself? I just keep Railway Time on my pendulum chronometers, and row ashore now and then to observe Transits of Venus for Longitude. ( or so I tell the missus! ) BTW, does anyone 'ere know how many seconds out of kilter the GPS time now is....?

'Traditionalist'

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