Ben and Cojo, the Caribbean deckhands, and I, meet on the bridge under a nave of stars.
When I stepped aboard, I showed the deckhand my phone and tapped the screen, which caused the ticket to change color.
Last time I went to Prince William Sound I met a deckhand.
I worked my way from deckhand to second mate to chief mate when I spent a year after college with K-Sea Transportation, taking barges and tankers from the Gulf of Mexico to the Eastern Seaboard.
Now, lying in bed, a deckhand on the good ship nausea, I try to fantasise.
After spending time as a deckhand on a mate's boat I decided commercial fishing was the life for me.
I've been a deckhand on P&O Ferries, a dustman, a barman, an administration robot, a security guard, tea-boy at L'Oreal, a copywriter, an editor, a social media wonk.
I may bat like a seasick deckhand putting out a galley fire, but by virtue of birth I'm granted some assumed authority.
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.
"They come up with this thing on the Web site about supplemental payments and I went ballistic," said Michelle Brooks, 49, a deckhand on a commercial shrimp boat who has yet to have her claim paid.
