Sentence examples for for a deckhand from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

Willcox applied for a job as a deckhand and, three months later, became the skipper of the first Rainbow Warrior.

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.

As she left First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Empire, Darvin Riley, 38, said she was having trouble getting her $2,500 check for the work she had missed as a deckhand on her brother's shrimp boat, the Captain Kaden, because some of his paperwork was out of date.

As he waited for the department's decision, he took a job as a deckhand with the Staten Island Ferry, and was later promoted to work for the head supervisor.