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October 2024 - What Exactly Is a Captain? In the October 2024 issue of Long Island Boating World, Tim Akpinar and Erol Akpinar cover a recent Florida decision from a federal appeals court that addressed the issue of how an insurance policy defined the term "captain." Excerpted from the recent article...
What is a captain? That might seem like a silly question to bring up, especially in a magazine where many of the readers are captains in one form or another, whether recreationally after buying a boat, or commercially, through accumulating sea time and sitting for a U.S. Coast Guard license.
In the most casual sense, the term “captain” could bring to mind the fatherly “skipper” on the lighthearted 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. The term could also suggest a six-pack OUPV (operator uninspected passenger vessel) captain who runs morning fishing charters out of Montauk. Or it could mean a deck officer on the bridge of the 171,000-ton container ship Emma Mærsk, who holds an unlimited tonnage, ocean master license but who sails as first officer. There are many possibilities. Read More at Long Island Boating World .