New Certificates

[Graham Evans]

Taking into account the increasing number of females choosing a career at sea, will the Master's Exam be renamed "MISTRESS FOREIGN GOING"?

[Doc Vernon]

Me thinks "Mistress" would perhaps give the wrong meaning if you get my drift!
But more seriously Graham,these days with most all things the Ladies have to
adhere to the old style of things so to speak!
Like for EG: becoming a Prime Minister! They dont call them Prime Ministresses !
Oh well whatever!
Cheers
Food for thought though!

[Captain Kong]

Or will` Mate` realy mean that.

[happy daze john in oz]

And this one has no idea what it is all about! Back to the fog locker I go.

[Duart Castle]

I always thought a mistress was a hybrid. ie. Something between a MISTER & A MATTRESS.
Russ McLean

[Tony Morcom]

Sooner or later someone will no doubt decide it is no longer politically correct to have shipping Masters and so presumably they will have to rename everything Captain

[Glenn Baker]

Im not sure if Madam Kapitan could be used although i met a few Madams in my time around the globe. all the best Glenn

[happy daze john in oz]

We used to have waiters and waitreses, now we have wait staff. So maybe the captain or captaines would become the cap staff?
Or if female maybe just the 'boss'' well it would fit after all said and done cos that is hwo they see themselves.

[len mazza]

Never mate,I was always a Saloon Steward,same as a zillion other poor sods.

Cheers,

Len.

[j.sabourn]

I think the average woman would never consider a life at sea if she had the living conditions that existed in the 50"s and 60"s. For example there used to be at least 4 seamen to a cabin, no air conditioning, toilet conditions and sanitary conditions only adequate. I can remember even on new buildings the bunks being measured for mininum size abour 6ft. X 2ft 6" or something like that. Then bang everything changed so as to be politically correct. They had to have different toilet facilitys and other features were changed to adjust for females. Previous to this the shipowner would do nothing for the seamen. All in the name of equality and politically correctness. I have sailed with stewardesses, and a female 2nd. Mate. The second mates boast was she could do anything a man could do except carry a bag of spuds when storing the ship. She came to me one day and asked for a job, so I put her over the offside plimsolls and told her to cut them in. I saw her over the side in a chair and passed the paint and brush down to her and left her. I forgot all about her and heard shouting about 4 hours later, she was still there and couldnt get back on board. She said I had done it on purpose, but I had literally forgotten about her. Myself personally do not like women on a ship, and this includes passengers, the few that we carried on the one ship that I served on that did carry them. There always seemed to be trouble on board with women.The few times I had my wife and young kids staying with me, I told her that she was responsible for the keeping clean the cabin etc. and was not to interfere or make suggestions about how the work was performed onboard. Maybe the type of ships I have served on are different, they might be all right for company advertising standing on the bridge of a ship, there is more to the job than that, at least there used to be. I am not a male chauvanist, which I am sure I will be accused of, but to me it does not seem right women on ships, also in cases of emergency think they would be very distracting in a dangerous situation. The 2nd mate in question did not fill a lifetime at sea, as she finished up in the personell department of Marks and Spencers. Cheers John Sabourn.