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| What is remarkable to me, is that it takes seven years for someone to become a fully qualified Sandy Hook Pilot...as long as it takes a person to become a lawyer! |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| traildriver wrote: | | What is remarkable to me, is that it takes seven years for someone to become a fully qualified Sandy Hook Pilot...as long as it takes a person to become a lawyer! |
traildriver:
Good observation!
The length of time it takes to become a Sandy Hook pilot, in truth, doesn't really seem all that "lengthy", when one takes into consideration the intense studying involved, for a career in which "second guessing" is NOT an option, when on the job!
It truly takes a "level head" for this line of work......
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Here's an in-depth, technical (and QUITE complex!) page, with a number of illustrations and charts, dedicated to harbor beacons, buoys, and markers.......
https://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse9.html |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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While on the subject of marine radar, it is interesting to remember that the first ferryboats equipped with radar in New York Harbor were the three boats of the Staten Island Ferry's "MERRELL" class, which entered service in 1950/1951 (these ferries also had the distinction of being the last steam ferries to operate in NY Harbor, being retired in the early 1980's)
The boats of the 69th Street-St. George line also were equipped with radar.
When the CRRNJ updated its fleet of turn-of-the-century ferryboats in the mid-1950's, they also installed radar on the boats.
This gave the CRRNJ the distinction of being the only railroad that operated trans-Hudson ferries to equip its fleet with radar.......
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