Sentence examples for deckhand to from inspiring English sources

It can easily take 10 years to advance from deckhand to captain; crews work seven consecutive days, often staying in comfortable below-deck quarters.

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.

This time around there was a lot of talk about respect and fraternity and flashbacks to Freddy, who is Samoan and taught other deckhands to drink the fresh blood of a raw fish for luck — and male bonding.

On the largest ferries, it's hard for the deckhands to make collections during the crossing, especially in the busy summer months when the boats are crowded and vehicles tend to have more passengers.

The narrator is a self-described modern-day "majordomo" to the Batroses – a clan of idle super-rich who fondly call their family private jet "l'autobus" and who occasionally pull up their superyacht to get their Italian deckhands to swim ashore and slaughter the nearest goat for supper.

Additionally, ship owners encouraged their deckhands to sing as they worked.

The ship's master had ordered the deckhands to rig one of the cargo booms after the ship docked in Los Angeles, but they refused because the deck was slippery and therefore, in their opinion, unsafe.

The captain shuts the boat down, and the deckhand tries to get the fighting belt on Kerry Kerryy is just holding on, trying to get the butt of the rod stuck into the belt.

Robert Micielli, 48, another deckhand, tried to cheer him up.

The jobs range from basic deckhand duties to skilled work, like engineers and cooks, and span the globe, from the Caribbean and the Mediterranean to Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

Most of the crew was from Ohio and Wisconsin; their ages ranged from 21-year-old deckhand Mark Andrew Thomas to Captain McSorley, 63 years old and planning his retirement.