Sentence examples for 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.

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.

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.

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.

Fear not: an army of luxury concierge firms, including London's Quintessentially, have sprung up to help people like Bennick find acceptable grocery stores as well as doctors, dentists and deckhands for their luxury yachts.

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.

By the time it reaches shore, to a dock paved with crushed oyster shells, the crew has 30 sacks filled and knotted — about $90 each for the deckhands, and about $420 for the captain, who has paid for the gas and food and must now fix the broken equipment.

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