YACHTSMASTER S' CERTIFICATES
MUST SERVE THREE YEARS [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 8. Regulations having particular application to yachtsmen in New Zealand waters are issued with to-night’s ‘ Gazette.’ , They are the Masters and Mates’ Regulations, No. 9, and deal with the qualifications necessary for the issue of yachtsmasters’ certificates. UnlJder tjie old regulation it was not ne necessary for an applicant for a yachtsmaster’s certificate to have spent any specified time at sea, his qualifications for seamanship being tested actually on his seamanship at the time of the examination. Now, it will be necessary for an applicant to have served for at least three years on a seagoing yacht before he can qualify for his ticket, and the old qualification of ownership or part-ownership of a yacht has been eliminated in the new regulations. Yacht clubs throughout the Dominion will be required to vouch for the fact that applicants who are members of their clubs have served the necessary three years on a seagoing yacht before sitting for their examinations.
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Evening Star, Issue 23136, 9 December 1938, Page 5
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