Sentence examples for a deckhand for from inspiring English sources

So I went down to the fishdock and was taken on as a deckhand for the morrow.

West, who had been working as a deckhand for 11 years, was hoping soon to get his own boat.

"You might see a time when there ain't no more black fishermen around here," said Warren Duplessis, 49, a deckhand for a two-man oystering operation.

The island's elders appealed to Greenpeace for help, and I had signed on as a deckhand for a month to report the evacuation for the Guardian.

He signed on as a deckhand for the United Fruit Company, "and he told me he spent most of his time swabbing latrines on the company's ships," his son George W. Wheelwright IV recalled.

and was a deckhand from Bermuda to Charleston, S.C., aboard the tall ship Virginia.

So far, payments have been fairly small, averaging about $2,500 a month for a deckhand or $5,000 for a fisherman.

Monthly salaries on a top-notch luxury yacht can exceed $3,500 for a deckhand or $2,000-$2,000-$5,000hostess.

A teenage deckhand for one boat hauled a 50-pound sack of ice down the steep gangway to the floating dock and then into a skiff.

When she was hired as a harbor patrol deckhand, for example, she responded to a barge's pictorial array of naked women by hanging up a photographic celebration of naked men.

For a deckhand on a fishing boat, a rogue wave is a behemoth that appears out of nowhere, potentially capsizing the ship.