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Article #22Re: CCG's Boat Operator Card
From: Don White
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:50
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:50
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A much smarter way is to take the Cdn Power Squadron boating course. At the end you write two exams...a short one for the Operator card and a longer one to pass the course. I found a lot of questions on the operator test silly and Mickey Mouse. maybe the term 'lowest common denominator' fits here. Stinky_Cat wrote: > > X-No-archive: Yes > > What's the deal with the CCG's Boat Operator Card? > They to claim to want to improve water safety by forcing people to take a > course and then pass a written exam. > > I was at the boat show two weeks back and there was an outfit there that was > promoting themselves by telling people to try the exam and if you did not > pass, you did not pay. It was $40.00 if you passed. > > I'm sure you can see what's going on here. > > I saw young children, and others, passing this test and I know for a fact > they did not pass. > > Of course they are going to pass everyone... at $40.00 a head, how can they > not... this is easy money. What a racket! > It does not seem to be regulated at all. > > By the way.. I passed. :) > > SC/*
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc1cc,5fc312dada668357,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc1cc,public X-Google-Thread: 11428d,975d953a1546a2ef X-Google-Attributes: gid11428d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-09 19:50:55 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!telocity-west!TELOCITY!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!torn!news-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!sapphire.mtt.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8ACB3B.77A4EDE0@ns.sympatico.ca> From: Don White <whited@ns.sympatico.ca> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en]C-SYMPA (Win98; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: ott.rec.sailing,can.rec.boating Subject: Re: CCG's Boat Operator Card References: <Kqbi8.4016$f5.171550@news> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:50:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.122.176 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mpoweredpc.net X-Trace: sapphire.mtt.net 1015732250 142.177.122.176 (Sat, 09 Mar 2002 23:50:50 AST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 23:50:50 AST Organization: MPowered-Subscriber