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Boat Fishing & Boating A new forum at Striped-Bass.com for those fishing from boats and for boating in general |
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06-29-2006, 06:50 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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CALL ME CAPTAIN !!!!!!
Finally got my license in the mail today !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gonna have to start that charter biz soon....
Capt. Van
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~..~..~.. ><((((º>
Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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06-29-2006, 07:22 PM
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Let's Rock!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Wareham, MA
Posts: 1,208
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Congrats!! 
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06-29-2006, 07:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: cape cod when my meds r workin right
Posts: 1,412
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good luck capt..its not a ez test lots of time w/the books ......capt cc
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06-29-2006, 07:23 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Congrats Van, got my 100 a few years ago. Cap'n Van.. kinda rolls off the tounge...
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^^^^^^^^^^^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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06-29-2006, 07:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Landlocked in my own prison
Posts: 1,031
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Nice job Van. Congrats.
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"Love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening, Life In Hell
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06-29-2006, 07:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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Congrats Cap'n Van  Well done! 
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The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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06-29-2006, 08:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: mass
Posts: 168
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congrats Captain 
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06-29-2006, 08:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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Good job Van ! 
Does that make Tom Gilligan ???
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LETS GO BRANDON
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06-29-2006, 08:52 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
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Congrats Van...
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I'm going where I'm going...
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06-29-2006, 08:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: weymouth
Posts: 1,360
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congradulations captain! That test seems like it takes a lot of book time to pass. What was your secret to success.
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thats why they call it fishing not catching
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06-29-2006, 08:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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CAPTAIN VAN ==sounds good ><>><< 
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ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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06-29-2006, 09:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
Posts: 1,501
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cool
congrats Van! cheers! 
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06-29-2006, 10:08 PM
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Take a Kid Fishing
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 681
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Way To Go....
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AMAMC.COM
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06-29-2006, 10:27 PM
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zoom
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Quincy
Posts: 4,145
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THANKS GUYS.....
Quote:
Originally Posted by quick decision
congradulations captain! That test seems like it takes a lot of book time to pass. What was your secret to success.
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Just like fishing, gotta put your time in.... and.............
STUDY !!!! (I've had some past experience there)
Not to brag, but, I smoked all 4 exams, no grade lower than 95.
Guess I'm just an egghead. I could have sat for the masters, got all the extra questions wrong and still passed, but I just didn't need it, so why bother and spend the extra $$$$$.
Tell ya one thing......I sure felt relieved when it was OVER !!!!!!!!!!!
Plotting was the most fun, cause you actually do something that is real. The rest was just memorizing.
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~..~..~.. ><((((º>
Things done at the last possible minute are done with the greatest possible information. Procrastination is, therefore, the most efficient means of doing things.
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06-29-2006, 10:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Captain Van
Is the MAN !!
great for you.....

now tell us your Captain Van strategy,,,
i'm sure its Unique!
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06-30-2006, 05:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cranston
Posts: 1,029
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Hey Van, is that with railroad tracks or eagle wings?? Comgrats!!
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06-30-2006, 06:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Congrats!
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06-30-2006, 06:58 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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From one capt to the another....congrats.
I did mine a few years ago too. I had so many offshore hours that it was a shame not to put them to some potential use and it has been on my personal "to-do" list for about 20 years. Its good stuff to know even if you don't use it in a comm capacity. I stuck around for the masters (it was a cold winter that year with not much going on) . I might get the towing add-on this winter and take another advaced navigation course. I like to talk boating in the winter and these courses are interesting...and you get to meet some great people too. I have met two close and very interesting friends thru these classes. Some of the sea stories you hear are incredable. One of the guys in the class explained how he was helo-rescued when his sailboat was sinking off bremuda, and the nightmares of getting into a life raft in open ocean when it is really rough and your going down. I think the most memorable thing I remember from the class was a movie they showed of a real collision (two big comm fishing boats) at sea on a foggy day. You watched a large comm fishing tralwer sink in less then 30 seconds when the one ship backed off the water flooded in and guys getting pulled down in the rigging, they had no idea what the hell was happening until it was too late. No time to put a pfd on or ready a life raft, only time to jump the hell off. The sound of the final looooooong blast given by the capt as the ship went down put chills in my spine. (really), It was chilling to actally witness this from the perspective of the other boat and hear that sound. It was the sound that says...someone help us we are ****ed.
Again, congrats Capt Van!
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06-30-2006, 08:55 AM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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06-30-2006, 08:57 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 3,595
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CONGRATS BIG-TIME
VB
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06-30-2006, 10:36 AM
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Here one day - gone next!
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Boston
Posts: 102
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Congrats also Van, but I thought Tom did all the steering and you did all the fishing or is it the otherway around.

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06-30-2006, 10:43 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 1,160
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Awsome, those are those computerized tests right? I've taken a bunch and they aren't too much fun usually.
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06-30-2006, 11:22 AM
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"Fishbucket"
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Bahston Hahbah
Posts: 6,588
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captain and coke
congrats Van 
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06-30-2006, 11:27 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
Posts: 3,322
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Congrats man, I mean Van.... Captian Van and Gillagan the Food Dude... 
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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06-30-2006, 01:45 PM
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DDG-51
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,550
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Congrats Van!!
Which way do you turn in the western rivers
ahhh now you can forget that stuff ...
since all you need is money to run a boat, the law of tonnage will always prevail 
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06-30-2006, 03:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 1,195
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Congratulations Van... were there any raccoon pooping in the boat questions on the test?
That's very cool... its an accomplishment.
I'm hoping to do it when the girls are out of daycare... its a good thng to go thru, there's alot I can still learn.
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07-01-2006, 05:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
Posts: 4,143
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congrats VAN ,I know the test is tough lots of memory involved
I hope your very proud of yourself way to go CAPT. VAN
ML  Sr.
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" Happy as a clam at high tide "
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