On 25 Oct 2003 16:47:02 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

I do more by 12:00 noon than most of you manage in a whole week...and have more
fun doing it!

Woke up 4:45 am,
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Do you now see how miserable and lonely your lives are? Can you begin to see
where it is that you went astray, leaving dreams behind? It isn't just youth
that's left you for dead...it's life itself.

I was up last night till 2AM, with my beautiful fiance, at the club
where she works. I slept until 10AM, then went to the bank, (don't
use the ATMs at strip clubs, there's a six buck charge.) Then I went
to the liquor store.

Don't you wish you could spend every night with beautiful naked women?
I pity you, getting up so early for work.


Hero@Horvath

I don't spend my money on food. I spend most of my money
on women, porn, booze, and recreation. The rest of it I just waste.

I dunno should I be jealous? I get up at three fifteen AM go to work at
three fourty five am. (Two ladders down). Work four hours then go to
breakfast (same deck). Then up two flights (whoops forgot there's an
elevator) where I have eight hours off and repeat the whole thing in the
afternoon evening. Sometimes there's overtime, sometimes there isn't.
There's always overtime on Saturday and Sunday for this particular job so I
do that 7/7. Every Sunday night I change shifts, the next one is 12 to 8
and so on. Another two weeks and I go on straight Mon to Fri eight hours a
day. Still only two flights down to the work site though. Oh and I have to
go down those two flights for lunch and supper. Nowhere really to go so I
save a lot of money. We do have TV and cellphones though. At sea it's the
same except water on both sides plus front and rear. Definitely nowhere to
go then so you save even more money. We do this for four to six months at a
time and then go look for the next job with anywhere from one month to four
months of vacation complete with unemployment pay. In between . . . . .work
on the boat, sail the boat .. . . etc. etc. etc. At sea we don't rotate the
watches and this time I had the coveted 8-12. Life isn't too bad come to
think of it.

Sure beats the days when I was flagging traffic 30 plus hours a week and
working in the convenience store on the weekend or wasting my life away in
Californiaville!

Cheers and fair winds . . . .. from the mighty Mississippi

Michael

Curious,

What is your position/job title ?

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 15:16:27 -0400, Schoonertrash
wrote:

I dunno should I be jealous? I get up at three fifteen AM go to work at
three fourty five am. (Two ladders down). Work four hours then go to
breakfast (same deck). Then up two flights (whoops forgot there's an
elevator) where I have eight hours off and repeat the whole thing in the
afternoon evening. Sometimes there's overtime, sometimes there isn't.
There's always overtime on Saturday and Sunday for this particular job
so I
do that 7/7. Every Sunday night I change shifts, the next one is 12 to
8
and so on. Another two weeks and I go on straight Mon to Fri eight hours
a
day. Still only two flights down to the work site though. Oh and I
have to
go down those two flights for lunch and supper. Nowhere really to go so
I
save a lot of money. We do have TV and cellphones though. At sea it's
the
same except water on both sides plus front and rear. Definitely nowhere
to
go then so you save even more money. We do this for four to six months
at a
time and then go look for the next job with anywhere from one month to
four
months of vacation complete with unemployment pay. In between . . . .
.work
on the boat, sail the boat .. . . etc. etc. etc. At sea we don't rotate
the
watches and this time I had the coveted 8-12. Life isn't too bad come to
think of it.

Sure beats the days when I was flagging traffic 30 plus hours a week and
working in the convenience store on the weekend or wasting my life away
in
Californiaville!

Cheers and fair winds . . . .. from the mighty Mississippi

Michael








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Curious,

What is your position/job title ?

Do a Google search on Schoonertrash and sjfern

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katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

As Katy was kind enough to point out I do hold a 100 ton license and use it
on occasion in a professional commercial way. However I'm currently
working as An Able Bodied Seaman (Limited) on a largish freighter of some
960 feet. Found out there's much more money as a full time deck hand on the
big boys than as an occasional delivery skipper or party boat operator.
(Full time good size pay check, meals, cabin, etc. etc. and insurance all
included) The main reason though was to fund the purchase of a new and bit
larger boat which now is paid for in full. Next phase is the refit/upgrade
to full cruising status and that will be done about midway through next
year. The job does have it's negatives as well as postives though. Gone
four to six months at a time might be construed as a negative unless in the
absence you lose something that really was a negative.Thereby proving what
my old science teacher taught us. Two negatives make a positive. Don't
worry 'bout it.

By the way I changed the email address and Rick I can't get yours to work.
Do you remember the young guy Chris on the misc.transport.marine newsgroup.
The one that wanted to know about going to sea? He followed our sage advice
and ended up being on this ship as an OS when I arrived in Diego Garcia some
months ago. Said to say thank you for everyone's help. He's now doing
AB/Lifeboatman school and I suspect will end up going for a Third's ticket.

Cheers!

Michael

"Schoonertrash" wrote in message ...
snipped some.
Gone four to six months at a time might be construed as a
negative unless in the absence you lose something that really
was a negative.

I never did see what you saw in Lady Sailor anyway. Talk about
your left coast, confused fluff!

S.Simon

"Schoonertrash" wrote:

As Katy was kind enough to point out I do hold a 100 ton license

Wow, that's heavy! Do you use a crane to carry it around? ;-)

LP (rather have a six-pack, especially when thirsty)

Sure do. We have four heavy lift McGregor cranes up forward. It took all
of them to get that piece of paper on board. You should see the size of the
suitcase I had to buy to carry it! Actually it gives me some advantages.
Once one of the unlimited tonnage licensed mates finds out you did something
to improve yourself they are much more prone to teach a lot of extras. A
lot of good navigation related tricks of the trade for one, the equivalent
of a full length radar operator/interpreters course, all sorts of extras.
All the extra or left over but still current charts, pilot books etc. come
our way. The two of us who have small tonnage licenses do all or most of
the lifeboat and Rhib Rescue boat work. We work with the charts and chart
updates, normally on a merchant ship only the 2nd mate with the third mates
assisting touch those. Another advantage is interviewing people on
different places in the world you might go one day in your own boat. These
people, over the years, have been to darn near every place in the world.
They'll tell you all the good and bad points of every entrance and every
harbor from doing the "Texas Chicken" in the Houston Channel to where the
best "plage au naturale" can be found and how close is required to get
within 20 power range. Because of my small boat time I get a lot of
questions. "WHAT is that blankety blank expeletive deleted so and so
doing?" It's a fair trade of information.

Cheers and fair winds!

Michael

"Schoonertrash" wrote in message
...
Sure do. We have four heavy lift McGregor cranes up forward. It took
all
of them to get that piece of paper on board. You should see the size of
the
suitcase I had to buy to carry it!

Hopefully you bought a Samsonite. Hehhee

LP

I work on freighters and tankers etc. as an Able Bodied Seaman (an in once
case a three masted square rigger) and deliver or operate 100 ton or less
boats as Captain, Mate, or deck hand. I live on a sailboat when not at
sea. Then just for fun and grins I vacation on cruise ships (actually did
that once).

MST