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Form CG 719S Small Vessel Sea Service Form Help
To document non-commercial sea service experience
and sea service experience from vessels of less than
200 gross tons use the Small Vessel Sea Service Form
USCG form CG 719S provided by the US Coast Guard.
Complete one form for every vessel you are
documenting sea service experience on. The form
consists of three sections:
This section contains basic information about the
applicant and the vessel. When completing this section
be as descriptive as possible when documenting the
body of waters the vessel was operated on. If you
operated on ocean waters include the name of the
ocean.
Treat this section like a calendar record of your sea
service experience. List the number of days that you
were underway for each month of each year, based on
your best memory. Use the information from the
calendar section to fill in the boxes at the bottom of
this section. Each box must contain an entry, even if it
is zero.
Completing this section is considered documenting your
sea service experience. It must be signed by the
applicant and the vessel owner, operator or master. If
the applicant was the vessel owner than proof of
ownership, such as state registration or vessel
documentation, must be included. All original forms and
signatures must be included.
To document non-commercial sea service experience
and sea service experience from vessels of less than
200 gross tons use the Small Vessel Sea Service Form
USCG form CG 719S provided by the US Coast Guard.
Complete one form for every vessel you are
documenting sea service experience on. The form
consists of three sections:
This section contains basic information about the
applicant and the vessel. When completing this section
be as descriptive as possible when documenting the
body of waters the vessel was operated on. If you
operated on ocean waters include the name of the
ocean.
- Example: Columbia River and North Pacific
Ocean between Newport, OR and Westport, WA.
Treat this section like a calendar record of your sea
service experience. List the number of days that you
were underway for each month of each year, based on
your best memory. Use the information from the
calendar section to fill in the boxes at the bottom of
this section. Each box must contain an entry, even if it
is zero.
- The "boundary line" is a line drawn between the
most seaward points of land at the entrance to
rivers, harbors, bays, sounds, and straights. If
the vessel was operated on inland waters
(shoreward of the boundary line) the sea day is
considered to be an inland day; but if the vessel
crossed the boundary line into ocean waters
(seaward of the boundary line) than that sea day
is considered to be an ocean or near coastal sea
day. - All the waters of SE Alaska, the inside passage,
Straights of Juan de Fuca east of Port Angeles
and Puget Sound is consider Inland waters for
the purpose of determining qualifying experience.
Completing this section is considered documenting your
sea service experience. It must be signed by the
applicant and the vessel owner, operator or master. If
the applicant was the vessel owner than proof of
ownership, such as state registration or vessel
documentation, must be included. All original forms and
signatures must be included.
- Step 1 Qualifying Sea Service
Experience
The first step to getting a Merchant Mariner Credential
is to document the required qualifying experience.
- Check the Requirements pages to determine the
amount of qualifying sea service experience
required for the endorsement you are seeking.
Sea service experience is measured in eight-hour
calendar days. Any day that you were on a vessel of
any type or size, had a position of responsibility, and
were away from the dock for more than four hours
counts as one calendar day of sea service experience.
On commercial vessels greater than 100 GRT where the
crew is contracted to work 12-hour days the applicant
may be credited for 1.5 days of service for each 12-
hour day worked, but this credit is generally NOT
extended to non-commercial vessel experience.
One Sea Day is equal to eight-hours of sea service
experience, where any time you are on a vessel of any
size or type and away from the dock for more than four
hours counts as one calendar day.
- One Month is equal to 30 days of sea service
experience. - One Year is equal to 12 months or 360 days.
Sea service experience can be counted from age 16 and
accumulates over your lifetime. It is never used up and
never expires; but you must be able to document the
experience for it to count towards an endorsement. For
an officer endorsement at least 90 days of the
qualifying experience must have been with the last
three years, the remainder can be from anytime after
age 16.
Application Process Steps
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