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    The Arrival of SubChapter M: Reality Check
    The Arrival of SubChapter M: Reality Check
    The Arrival of SubChapter M: Reality Check
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    The Arrival of SubChapter M: Reality Check

    By Donald Bates-Brands

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    As of June 20, 2016 Subchapter M is officially here. It is supposed to address many issues in the towing industry and make our profession much safer. Everything has been addressed including fire fighting, supplies, record keeping, drills, surveys, inspections, training, navigation, security, lifesaving, etc. Everything, except for Manning and Work Hours. Everything except for the most important issue in the entire package. We can have the best equipment, with the best shoreside support team, with the best policies, training and guidance, but what does any of that matter if the crew is exhausted? Exhausted crews get injured more often, make bad decisions and fall asleep on watch. Manning is the most important part of Subchapter M

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    PublisherDonald Bates-Brands
    Release dateJan 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370789276
    The Arrival of SubChapter M: Reality Check
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    Donald Bates-Brands

    Boats and the sea have been my life. I think I was about eight years old when I got my first boat, a dilapidated canoe. A few years later I graduated to a healthier canoe with a lateen sailing rig. This was my first sailboat. I capsized it a lot, but had thoroughly caught the boating bug. I started racing sailboats by the age of 12. In 1968 I joined the Coast Guard at the age of 17 and was discharged in 1975 with the grade of First Class Quartermaster. My first tour in the Coast Guard was an oceanographic trip to Africa on the CGC Rockaway. It was a three month tour with most of the time at sea, but it was my first adventure out of the country and I loved it. My second oceanographic tour on this ship took me to the Barbados, Trinidad, the Bahamas, and Puerto Rico. Later in this hitch I was transferred to the CGC Lilac, a triple expansion steam buoy tender, a fugitive from museums built in the early Thirty’s. I believe it is now being refurbished in NY City for display in the near future. I returned to the CGC Rockaway to finish my first hitch and made a Cadet cruise to England. Discharged from the Coast Guard on Oct 22, 1971, I returned to England for a 3 month tour by bicycle. In January of 1972 I rejoined the CG and reported aboard the buoy tender CGC Firebush at Governors Island NY. In the summer of 1972, I took leave from the CGC Firebush and enjoyed a two week cruise along the south coast of England with a British friend on his 27’ Trident class sloop. This was a bilge keel rig that proved to be fairly important in an area with 30 foot tides. Many times at low tide we were aground, but vertical resting on the two keels. After returning stateside to the CGC Firebush, the wanderlust hit me again and I requested and received a transfer to the CGC Gallatin which was making a cadet cruise through Europe. On this trip I got to Gibraltar, Portugal, Germany, Denmark and England. In 1974 I bought the Chesapeake Skipjack "Pale Moon" and sailed it from Maryland's Eastern Shore to NY for Opsail '76. Throughout this period I was involved in one design racing. Since my discharge from the Coast Guard in January of 1975, I have been working on large seagoing tugboats and currently hold a 1600 ton Ocean Master's License as well as Unlimited Third Mate and an Unlimited Radar Observer endorsement. I have written extensively on marine safety for Offshore Magazine and other publications. I have now retired from going to see and am pursuing my writing full time. On my free time, I enjoy cruising with my wife on our Catalina 22 on Long Island NY's Great South Bay.

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      THE ARRIVAL OF SUBCHAPTER M — REALITY CHECK

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      Text Copyright 2017 Donald Bates-Brands

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      THE ARRIVAL OF SUBCHAPTER M — REALITY CHECK

      As of June 20, 2016 Subchapter M is officially here. It is supposed to address many issues in the towing industry and make our profession much safer. Everything has been addressed including fire fighting, supplies, record keeping, drills, surveys, inspections, training, navigation, security, lifesaving,

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