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  1. 1 hour ago, Lewis863 said:

    Actually.........there are some errors in the posts above......so here are some clarifications..........

     

    1.) If you are operating a boat, as a captain a six pack license or as it is called OUPV, Operator of an Uninspected Passenger Vessel is required in all Coast Guard Patrolled Waters of which the Great Lakes and larger finger lakes are such.  This allows you your crew plus six paying passengers for fishing, charter or whatever you want to do.

    2.) if you are hired to come on board a personal craft to help someone fish, a six pack license is not required, that would fall under the fishing guide licensing for New York State.

    3.) If you are hired by a captain to work on their boat, he is doing so under his six pack license, and no license is required of you.  You are part of the crew and crew members on six pack charters are not required to be licensed in any way.

     

    I would know because I researched this extensively, and I hold both the New York Fishing Guide License and the Six Pack OUPV Coast Guard Captains license.

     

    In order to obtain a fishing guides license, it is not a complicated test but you need a bunch of knowledge of guiding, the laws etc and a simple search on the internet under the New York Guiding license program will give you the sum total of what you need to know....the test is proctored and done in sections you have to pass general, plus fishing, plus boating.....it is not complicated nor hard in my opinion.

     

    The coast guard OUPV captains license is a long process that at best can be done in about 5 months, if you have the required documented experience hours, most people pay for a course, then you pass a proctored test, drug screen, background check through homeland, obtain a TWIC card, etc etc etc.....with the experience, buying a course, and moving quickly I did it in about 4 months at a cost of about 1K by the time you pay all the fees, and pay for a course (all online my choice).....Definitely learned a bunch in that process some of it useless for what I'm doing but most not.....There is also different classes of the license with the highest as Near Shore, meaning out to 100 miles off shore and all inland waters....but this is issued and defined based on your experience.  I strongly recommend the Mariners Learning System their program was relatively easy to use and I passed my testing with high scores the first time.

     

    Hope that helps

    Thank You!

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