Re: What do you get from YA?

"D Parker" <nospamozskipper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Garry Beattie" <gjbeattie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "D Parker" <nospamozskipper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>
>>>> Why do no other country accept QYA certificates?
>>>>
>>>> Garry
>>>
>>> Possibly because they arent recognised by ISAF (I would guess). The
best 
>>> certificates to get are the pommy RYA ones. They are recognised world 
>>> wide.
>>>
>>> I think our course are somewhat easier than the pommy ones. When I was

>>> teaching Competant Crew and Inshore Skipper there was quite a
difference 
>>> in the minimum requirements compared to the poms.
>>>
>>> DP
>>
>> Yes I have also been told the Pommy ones are the courses to do. And I
do 
>> believe a number of Australian Schools are becoming affiliated with the

>> Pommy organisations rather than YA for this same reason.
>>
>> 10 years ago I would have not cared less about wether or not my QYA or
YA 
>> certificate was recognised overseas, HOWEVER these days with the US and

>> Canada becoming more and more strict on who can and can't sail a vessel

>> in their waters, and NZ now contemplating making it mandatory law that 
>> any skipper sailing out of NZ MUST have certified offshore skippers 
>> qualifications otherwise they will not be permitted to leave ****t, it
now 
>> starts to play on my mind that I have over 30 years of sailing 
>> experience, have skippered everything from a 14 foot Hobie to an 80
foot 
>> maxi, and have a couple of blue water ocean voyages covering thousands
of 
>> NM under my belt, but I do not have 1 piece of paper that says I am 
>> competent at sailing or even a log book showing what I have done.
>>
>> That is what is playing on my mind at present.
>>
>> Garry
>
> Yeh .. I hear your grief. Foolishly, I let my coxswains and instructers 
> tickets expire because work had taken me elsewhere.  For the sake of a
few 
> hundred bucks every 5 years I should have just kept paying the money. I 
> now how to resit all the exams again for my coxswains if i need it back.
>
> As a result I dont have any paper of value either. Just and old log book

> and some expired licences.
>
> DP

At least that's a couple of items more than what I have ever had Dave!!!!

I honestly don't understand the way it works.

I also have my pilots licence. I have not flown for 10 years and my
medical 
is currently out of date.
I can not just go and hop back into a plane now and go flying but I don't 
have to resit all the test's again either.
All I will need to do is get a new medical and then go to a flying school 
for a "check-out" flight. Once they certify that I am still competent at 
flying an aircraft I can then fly again as often as I want.

I don't understand why they do not do the same for marine applications.

Garry