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Music,
You are confusing training with experience...
ASA courses are good for what they do...
The USCG Capt. License is an excellent theory test...
However, a USCG license and every course ASA teach will not give you the experience to handle my boat in a Force 9 gale or get her into somewhere at night, in a dense fog, with a broken radar and chart plotter, in a 2 knot cross current!
Good luck with your plans. The 4-5 month RYA courses are good but they need to be done in serious tidal waters in winter not sunny climes. I do not know of any equivalent US courses.
You are confusing training with experience...
ASA courses are good for what they do...
The USCG Capt. License is an excellent theory test...
However, a USCG license and every course ASA teach will not give you the experience to handle my boat in a Force 9 gale or get her into somewhere at night, in a dense fog, with a broken radar and chart plotter, in a 2 knot cross current!
Good luck with your plans. The 4-5 month RYA courses are good but they need to be done in serious tidal waters in winter not sunny climes. I do not know of any equivalent US courses.
