Sail Life - ABYC marine electrical certification ✔️ 

That would be epic :D

Thank you! 😊

I see what you did there

Groan!

Welcome to our world. I started watching years ago. :)

Many of us have been in your shoes. Find a good counselor now!

Thank you :) Between you and me I wanted to be an electrician when I was younger but had a bad experience with the local electrician in grade 9 when I was there for two weeks as a part of a "figure out what you want to be when you grow up"-program at school. They were so horrible to each other and to me. If the work environment had been better there then I'd properly have been an electrician today.

@@SailLifelol exactly the same, you probably dodged a bullet though, you could have easily ended up in one of the multiple bad companies that probably outnumbers the healthy ones.

The hazing and work environment in the USA within the electrical trade in the late 80's and early 90's could be quite brutal for new apprentices and pre-apprentices. From everything I heard growing up as a third-generation electrician things were even worse before that. One needed to put their time in as the lowest rung on the totem pole and poo rins downhill so to speak with traditional behaviors and folks thinking that the way things were when they were in that position, and now it is their tum to get theirs back on the new guys. It could be even worse if they knew your family and maybe had a few personal scores to settle on the next generation. Not that it was all bad but one needed to grow a VERY tough skin and learn to really do what everyone expected of a grunt on the very bottom and not get a reputation as a baby or a complainer. After 5-6 years of that one graduated as a journeyman and got a little more respect for finishing off the program. The pay was very good , especially if one got into management and ran jobs as a foreman and got extra pay and profit-sharing incentives for making the shop owners lots and lots of money. If you were good at getting results you could literally name your own terms and maybe retire at age 50 and go live on a sailboat. :D

Agree 100% - and I suspect that you like now me after watching this video are thinking about doing the ABYC certification. Mads made it sound like a very worth while thing to do.

Doctor N Calder is one of those people who helps define and set those standards.. That said he's also the guy who developed a lot of the actual electrical systems on modern boats. Especially the high output low rpm generator alternator s. 😎

I LOVE that t-shirt idea!!! I already have one of his "Oh Glorious Sanding" shirts, but that would be a fun addition, especially when working on my boat!

Thank you so much :D

Oh, and congrats on the test score.

I'm going to guess that Mads will demonstrate what he has learned while doing the next refit. He was like a "hands-on" instructor while refitting both Obelix and Athena.