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, drove to City Island. Prepped the Cape Dory 25, stored her
stuff and motorsailed her to Whitestone. The water was like glass! An hour
early, I had breakfast aboard on the mooring...just a bagel and fruit with tea.
The sun came up like a damn postcard...beautiful! The buyers showed up and I
brought the boat over. They were so thrilled and the guys wife actually had
baked me brownies! We had some time before my ride showed up, so we quickly
popped the sails and tacked around. My buddies J24 appeared, easily overtook
the Cape Dory and I jumped ship with a nice wad of cash in my bag!
We sailed back in flukey air to City Island, just a gorgeous day weatherwise!
Got back to my club and dragged all of the removeable electronics off Alien to
take home. 12:33 now and I'm back home with my old hatchboard. I'm making a
nice new one today, then going to a private screening of Master and Commander
tonight after dining at The Black Whale.
Tomorrow I'll be sailing in NY harbor on an Irwin 32 (same thing as an
Endeavour) until the rain comes! A perfect weekend...if the Yankees are happily
crushed!
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.

Too sad for a proper "Bwahahahahaha" this time, so Boohoobooohooo booo hooo!

Capt RB
Alien C&C 32
NY

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,
[crapola deleted]
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)

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

I highly doubt it.
"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...
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, drove to City Island. Prepped the Cape Dory 25, stored
her
stuff and motorsailed her to Whitestone. The water was like glass! An hour
early, I had breakfast aboard on the mooring...just a bagel and fruit with
tea.
The sun came up like a damn postcard...beautiful! The buyers showed up and
I
brought the boat over. They were so thrilled and the guys wife actually
had
baked me brownies! We had some time before my ride showed up, so we
quickly
popped the sails and tacked around. My buddies J24 appeared, easily
overtook
the Cape Dory and I jumped ship with a nice wad of cash in my bag!
We sailed back in flukey air to City Island, just a gorgeous day
weatherwise!
Got back to my club and dragged all of the removeable electronics off
Alien to
take home. 12:33 now and I'm back home with my old hatchboard. I'm making
a
nice new one today, then going to a private screening of Master and
Commander
tonight after dining at The Black Whale.
Tomorrow I'll be sailing in NY harbor on an Irwin 32 (same thing as an
Endeavour) until the rain comes! A perfect weekend...if the Yankees are
happily
crushed!
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.

Too sad for a proper "Bwahahahahaha" this time, so Boohoobooohooo booo
hooo!

Capt RB
Alien C&C 32
NY