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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:10:42 -0700 (PDT), Bob
wrote:

On Mar 15, 3:06*am, "Edgar" wrote:



Beats swabbing out the heads any day, Bob. *How did you get onto the fast
track for promotion?

WHat does a loser RBC wanna be yachtie do on a work boat? Oh yes,
today I drove the boat for 4 hours weaving through the rigs. later
spliced more eyes in 3 inch line. ate like a king and later cleaned 3
heads. gota stay humble ya know.

I hear im set to go to a 1600 ton boat in a week or so. Something
about me having an AB rate ;)
Arg!
bob


Not to be too noisy but what is the pay scale on a work boat? A day
rate for days worked? Or hourly? Monthly?

On the rigs it was a day rate for every day, or part of a day, on the
rig. Didn't make any difference whether you were hiding down in the
engine room or working 24 hours straight cause something broke - same
rate.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

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On Mar 19, 8:10*pm, Bob wrote:
On Mar 15, 3:06*am, "Edgar" wrote:

Beats swabbing out the heads any day, Bob. *How did you get onto the fast
track for promotion?

WHat does a loser RBC wanna be yachtie do on a work boat? Oh yes,
today I drove the boat for 4 hours weaving through the rigs. later
spliced more eyes in 3 inch line. ate like a king and later cleaned 3
heads. gota stay humble ya know.

I hear im set to go to a 1600 ton boat in a week or so. Something
about me having an AB rate ;)
Arg!
bob

You mean a 300 ton boat right? A supply boat? Do you know the name of
the boat?
I can't think of any 1,600 ton boats working in the Gulf, unless your
going to work for NOAA, or on a semi underway or perhaps a smaller
drill ship.

What's the name of the boat you are on now? Who's it buildt by? Who
you guys working for?

Supply boats have cement and mud tanks Bob. I warned you!

Joe

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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:04:51 -0700 (PDT), Joe
wrote:

On Mar 19, 8:10Â*pm, Bob wrote:


Supply boats have cement and mud tanks Bob. I warned you!

It's good to get that kind of "inside" info.
Knew a guy who signed on with a company because they were going to
send him to Hawaii on a 6-month contract - this is computer stuff.
He calls me a few weeks later from New Jersey.
I ask why is he in New Jersey.
He says that's how this company spells Hawaii.

--Vic

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On Mar 20, 9:20*am, Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:04:51 -0700 (PDT), Joe

wrote:
On Mar 19, 8:10*pm, Bob wrote:

Supply boats have cement and mud tanks Bob. I warned you!

It's good to get that kind of "inside" info.
Knew a guy who signed on with a company because they were going to
send him to Hawaii on a 6-month contract - this is computer stuff.
He calls me a few weeks later from New Jersey.
I ask why is he in New Jersey.
He says that's how this company spells Hawaii.

--Vic

Bob might get lucky and get a supply boat working production. But if
they are working with a drilling rig, deck hands work can be grueling.
100 degree days inside a 120 degree steel tank shoveling cement into
bucket after bucket, and pulling it up 15 feet and dumping it over the
side, times 6-8 tanks can make for a very long day. And mad can be a
deckhands worst nightmare depending on the wind and the mix. It's
good work if you are not on deck anymore.

He's got his AB so only another what..1100 days at sea and he can get
his 1,600 ton masters ticket.
Better late than never if thats your dream.

Myself I'd find a nice deep water standby boat, or a utility boat and
get into fishing Red Snapper, ling and grouper.

Joe

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Bob might get lucky and get a supply boat working production. But if
they are working with a drilling rig, deck hands work can be grueling.
100 degree days inside a 120 degree steel tank shoveling cement into
bucket after bucket, and pulling it up 15 feet and dumping it over the
side, times 6-8 tanks can make for a very long day. And mad can be a
deckhands worst nightmare depending on the wind and the mix. It's
good work if you are not on deck anymore.



I can tell YOU haven't set foot aboard a workboat for at least twenty years,
Joe.

Nowadays they use pumps to transfer the contents of mud tanks. Get a clue,
dude. Pumps work MUCH CHEAPER than a deck monkey.

Wilbur Hubbard

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On Mar 20, 11:19*am, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

...

*Bob might get lucky and get a supply boat working production. But if
they are working with a drilling rig, deck hands work can be grueling.
100 degree days inside a 120 degree steel tank shoveling cement into
bucket after bucket, and pulling it up 15 feet and dumping it over the
side, times 6-8 tanks can make for a very long day. And mad can be a
deckhands worst nightmare depending on the wind and the mix. *It's
good work if you are not on deck anymore.

I can tell YOU haven't set foot aboard a workboat for at least twenty years,
Joe.

Nowadays they use pumps to transfer the contents of mud tanks. Get a clue,
dude. Pumps work MUCH CHEAPER than a deck monkey.

Wilbur Hubbard

Neal you strupid turd munching Putz!

Mud tanks have to be cleaned between different formulas of mud. You
could be sued for cargo loss if you containmate a mud batch. So you
have to suit up and go inside the tank with fire hoses and have any
traces washed out and sucked up on to a recovery truck. Now if the
people on the drilling rig care less about the boat they are likely to
vent mud & cement tanks onto the boat, it's a several hour scrub job
on a hot summer day to get all the mud off the boat, and can be a
total nightmare when cement is vented on a boat covered with morning
dew..

Cement is complety different, but the tanks have to be cleaned
between batches for the same reasons. It involves bucketing out by
hand all the cement that can not be blown off the boat. if you have a
good engineer most except the last 10 to 15 sacks can be blown over
while heading to the beach, vibrators need changing often, and if you
have a really really bad day (leaking hatch) nothing but jack hammers
and a weeks hard duty will fix the mess.

Are you so stupid as to think that they ever transferred mud or cement
by hand? Were talking 8000 sacks a trip Nellie, and up to 20,000
gallons of mud costing up to 16.00 a gallon in the late 90's.

Stick to stuff you read on the internet, thats the only way you can be
seen as knowledgeable in anything related to maritime activities.

Joe

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Mud tanks have to be cleaned between different formulas of mud. You
could be sued for cargo loss if you containmate a mud batch. So you
have to suit up and go inside the tank with fire hoses and have any
traces washed out and sucked up on to a recovery truck. Now if the
people on the drilling rig care less about the boat they are likely to
vent mud & cement tanks onto the boat, it's a several hour scrub job
on a hot summer day to get all the mud off the boat, and can be a
total nightmare when cement is vented on a boat covered with morning
dew..

Cement is complety different, but the tanks have to be cleaned
between batches for the same reasons. It involves bucketing out by
hand all the cement that can not be blown off the boat. if you have a
good engineer most except the last 10 to 15 sacks can be blown over
while heading to the beach, vibrators need changing often, and if you
have a really really bad day (leaking hatch) nothing but jack hammers
and a weeks hard duty will fix the mess.

Are you so stupid as to think that they ever transferred mud or cement
by hand? Were talking 8000 sacks a trip Nellie, and up to 20,000
gallons of mud costing up to 16.00 a gallon in the late 90's.

Stick to stuff you read on the internet, thats the only way you can be
seen as knowledgeable in anything related to maritime activities.



Well, excuuuuse me. Your illiterate writing style made it sound like mud was
transferred by bucketing it out of tanks. Next time do a better job
explaining you were talking about *cleaning* the tanks. Duh! And, I bet
those idiot captains on these workboats know NOTHING about the laws and
federal regulations concerning enclosed spaces safety. I wonder how many of
them do the proper atmospheric testing and how many of them maintain the
required rescue harness, breathing apparatus etc.?

Wilbur Hubbard

LIVE from Morgan City, LA !
 

On Mar 20, 3:32*pm, "Gregory Hall" wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

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Mud tanks have to be cleaned between different formulas of mud. You
could be sued for cargo loss if you containmate a mud batch. So you
have to suit up and go inside the tank with fire hoses and have any
traces washed out and sucked up on to a recovery truck. Now if the
people on the drilling rig care less about the boat they are likely to
vent mud & cement tanks onto the boat, it's a several hour scrub job
on a hot summer day to get all the mud off the boat, and can be a
total nightmare when cement is vented on a boat covered with morning
dew..

*Cement is complety different, *but the tanks have to be cleaned
between batches for the same reasons. It involves bucketing out by
hand all the cement that can not be blown off the boat. if you have a
good engineer most except the last 10 to 15 sacks can be blown over
while heading to the beach, vibrators need changing often, and if you
have a really really bad day (leaking hatch) nothing but jack hammers
and a weeks hard duty will fix the mess.

Are you so stupid as to think that they ever transferred mud or cement
by hand? Were talking 8000 sacks a trip Nellie, and up to 20,000
gallons of mud costing up to 16.00 a gallon in the late 90's.

Stick to stuff you read on the internet, thats the only way you can be
seen as knowledgeable in anything related to maritime activities.

Well, excuuuuse me. Your illiterate writing style made it sound like mud was
transferred by bucketing it out of tanks. Next time do a better job
explaining you were talking about *cleaning* the tanks. Duh! *And, I bet
those idiot captains on these workboats know NOTHING about the laws and
federal regulations concerning enclosed spaces safety. I wonder how many of
them do the proper atmospheric testing and how many of them maintain the
required rescue harness, breathing apparatus etc.?

Wilbur Hubbard- Hide quoted text -

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I did not make it sound like that, you assumed.

And yes a proper breathing apparatus (forced air hoods) are required
in the mud tanks as most mud is petro based. I said you have to "Suit
up" to go into the tanks bonehead, pay attention Im not talking about
a gray pin stripe.

If you were not so involved in changing your name all the time wilbur,
now greg, Neal you might be able to follow along.
Oh what a tangled web you weave.

Joe
I'm glad you were able to find something on the internet related to
the subject.

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"Joe" wrote in message
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I'm glad you were able to find something on the internet related to
the subject.


I know all that confined space safety stuff without having to search it on
the Internet. I've been to classes on confined space safety and even got
certified in the calibration and use of the confined space gas monitors.


Wilbur Hubbard - a man of many personalities and talents.

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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:28:22 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Joe" wrote in message
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snippage

I'm glad you were able to find something on the internet related to
the subject.


I know all that confined space safety stuff without having to search it on
the Internet.

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