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Ryan

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[color=#006600]basslover[/color] wrote:
[color=#0066cc]Ryan[/color] wrote:
[color=#006600]basslover[/color] wrote:
I dont need a skippers license! hehehehe
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Uhm sorry to inform you but it looks like you do.......:fbash
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So you telling me that i need a skippers license when im in my tube....or did you make a joke and i was too blonde to get it??hehehe:kaykak
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Sadly all water craft - sorry bud you gonna have to buy a life jacket, smoke flares, first aid kit. Alternate form of propulsion etc - This has just become a pshyco money making business for the controlling bodies.......................
 
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Little Green Fish

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[color=#0066cc]Ryan[/color] wrote:
[color=#006600]basslover[/color] wrote:
[color=#0066cc]Ryan[/color] wrote:
[color=#006600]basslover[/color] wrote:
I dont need a skippers license! hehehehe
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Uhm sorry to inform you but it looks like you do.......:fbash
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So you telling me that i need a skippers license when im in my tube....or did you make a joke and i was too blonde to get it??hehehe:kaykak
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Sadly all water craft - sorry bud you gonna have to buy a life jacket, smoke flares, first aid kit. Alternate form of propulsion etc - This has just become a pshyco money making business for the controlling bodies.......................
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K, so the flares, life jackets and 1st Aid kit I can do and don't have a problem with, but an alternate propulsion system, Hau? and what about things like buoyancy certification for an inflatable with no rigid part/s (meaning semi-rigid hull)? would paddles suit the requirement for alternate propulsion when the main is a trwaling motor?
 
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Ryan

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[color=#006600]Little Green Fish[/color] wrote:
[color=#0066cc]Ryan[/color] wrote:
[color=#006600]basslover[/color] wrote:
[color=#0066cc]Ryan[/color] wrote:
[color=#006600]basslover[/color] wrote:
I dont need a skippers license! hehehehe
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Uhm sorry to inform you but it looks like you do.......:fbash
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So you telling me that i need a skippers license when im in my tube....or did you make a joke and i was too blonde to get it??hehehe:kaykak
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Sadly all water craft - sorry bud you gonna have to buy a life jacket, smoke flares, first aid kit. Alternate form of propulsion etc - This has just become a pshyco money making business for the controlling bodies.......................
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K, so the flares, life jackets and 1st Aid kit I can do and don't have a problem with, but an alternate propulsion system, Hau? and what about things like buoyancy certification for an inflatable with no rigid part/s (meaning semi-rigid hull)? would paddles suit the requirement for alternate propulsion when the main is a trwaling motor?
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Yep a trolling motor is not recognised as an alternative form of propulsion - ever tried to paddle a big boat with paddles against a current or against the wind - man it makes me laugh.................................
 
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basslover

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Fishton i also heard that you need a skippers from anything over 7hp. not for a floatube or any boat with a trolling motor or less than 7hp.
Well thats just my 2c.
I do want to get a life jacket, you do get some nutters on the water and had already have something like 2 nearby collisions, with drunk jetskiers and wake boats!!@#*holes!
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. A COF is now required for Canoe's and other small vessels - Float tubes maybe a grey area but it is comming.............
 
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Fishton

Sealiner
Has anyone ever considered this?

On water your craft needs a 'million' safety items and annual inspections, even a little fishing ski. The 'operator' needs to be fully qualified and certified with a minimum amount of experience.

On land you need a learner’s license, then a drivers license and your car/motorcycle needs to be roadworthy, etc etc.

Then why are cyclists that can’t even keep a straight track, with no headlights, brake lights, indicators etc who ride abreast and think they own the road, allowed on our roads not half a meter from us licensed drivers that are fully legal?
 
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Ryan

Sealiner
What do they call it "Rich mans TAX"...........
Thing is think about it -somebody had to go to the Authoroties and give them guidelines etc for all of this.
I mean carrying fresh water on a boat on inland water bodies - you can't tell me that if you are that thirsty you won't take a swig from the local dam no matter how sif it is - it beats drinking your own urine......
I want see any guy with a bass boat - bailing water with a galavanised bucket -------- Man some of this stuff makes me gas.
How about steering a 300HP motor with a tiller arm (alternative steering source) after you have disconnected the hydrolic steering soaked your bass boat in Hydraulic oil etc.
But again rules are rules and we need to abide by them.........
 
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MichaelK

Sealiner
Hi gents, i understand that all motorized vessels utilising dams harbours and esturies all have to comply to the new inland water regs.

Please tell me how these regs affect, guys utilising canoes, kayaks or skis.

Thanks
 
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Scrat

Senior Member
Stuff this! thats way you should have a nine-mil or larger to sink the basterds when they come near to you to check your licence on the water and a fast boat to get away!!!

Mmmm, just joking, or am I!!!

I will look like a mouron with a life jacket in my float tube! I already look funny enough thanx!!!
 
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basslover

Senior Member
All vessels excepting power driven vessels of 15 HP or less, sailing vessels of 9 metres or less
in length and vessels propelled by human power alone must be inspected and certified as seaworthy
annually (i.e. obtain a Certificate of Fitness);

LMAO Scrat when are we gona start at virgin....lol...
 
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