Make Money With Your Captain's License: How to Get a Job or Run a Business on a Boat (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Hardcover

Brown, David G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071475230 ISBN 13: 9780071475235

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2008

Synopsis

A practical guide to turning your love forboating into money in the bank

You may dream of making your passion forthe sport a means for a livelihood. Whetheryou are looking for new employmentpossibilities or wanting to remain active inyour golden years, Captain Brown can help turn yourdreams of making money afloat into a reality.

Brown describes how to get a job on a boat or run apractical boat-based business, including fishing charters,excursions, dinner cruises, and water taxis. He alsocovers business issues, safety, marketing, liability, andCoast Guard licensing requirements. The author detailsthe possible ups and downs and risks about running aboat-based business.

About this title

About the Author:

David G. Brown holds a U.S. Coast Guard Master's License, 100 Gross Tons, with Commercial Assistance Towing and Auxiliary Sail endorsements. He has served as the captain of a high-speed ferry serving the Lake Erie islands from Port Clinton, Ohio. Brown is an instructor for North Coast Marine Services, a firm specializing in safety risk assessment, crew training and license instruction. He has also been employed as a boatbuilder and repairer, and for 17 years was a television news producer, writing and producing more than 1,500 hours of news/documentary scripts and receiving an Emmy award for his coverage of the Agent Orange story in 1979.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071475230
• ISBN 13: 9780071475235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240