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The two traps that get service rejected
USCG-ENG-SEA-M1 · Counting the Time · USCG-ENG-SEA-M1-A How the Coast Guard turns days aboard into sea service.
The National Maritime Center publishes the mistakes it sees most. Two of them land squarely on yacht engineers, and neither can be fixed retrospectively once the boat is sold, the captain has moved on, or the owner has stopped answering.
AI-drafted catalogue content pending SME review. Sea service crediting and manning requirements change, and enforcement practice on recreational vessels was not confirmed from primary sources; verify with the National Maritime Center and the cognizant OCMI before relying on this for a career decision.