HAWSEPIPER: The Longest Climb

I have the night off here on the HQ. No cargo tonight. We're at our good lay berth in Brooklyn, hanging in until tomorrow after lunch.  ...

  Dock talk yesterday:      So B and I were standing on the dock with 7 other tankermen who were off the berths nearby.  We spent about 30 m...

 Well, I am happy to be back on board the HQ.      I returned Wednesday and found it good. A few days away somewhere shitty and it made our ...

 Well, here I am.       So it's been a minute since I got the dread phone call of 'we need you to cover so-and-so on (insert vessel ...

 Well, I'm back aboard the HQ. My first watch is a busy one, though we're presently waiting for a thunderstorm to pass before we hea...

  Well I'm home and I'm running around like a cat trying to bury a turd under a marble floor.       Still, it's been good. A lot...

 Workload's been pretty light. Seasonably slow, which has been good as we caught up on things on here, hosted the coast guard for our an...