HAWSEPIPER: The Longest Climb

THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS FROM AN AMERICAN Merchant Mariner

Friday, September 11, 2026

Perspective

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 I need to count my blessings that I have minor things to bitch about like getting ganked onto another assignment, and having no hot water o...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Ganked!

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 I'm fine, everything's fine. The small, shitty part of me wants to make a list of everything I don't like right now.   Other th...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Still alive, still here

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 I'm supposed to go home tomorrow but I agreed to do some OT. The job I agreed to do fell through last minute and I'm left with anot...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

A repoast

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 The more you can poke holes in any hypothesis, the more shitty it is.     So, you can poke multiple holes in the theory of evolution, and w...
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Thursday, August 20, 2026

This is painful

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 My employer has started throwing online training videos at us, in the same way spaghetti is thrown at a ceiling.   I get it, they get press...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026

...and back again. Anatomy of a crew change.

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  TUES AM:       Well, it was good to be home.    Sitting at my local airport now with a delayed flight to NY. Not an auspicious start to th...
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

100 days

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 So one of the things we're doing differently these days on the HQ is that we're doing a 100-day challenge of no booze and no binge ...
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Paul, Dammit!
I'm Paul B and I'm a professional mariner and former but still occasionally a marine scientist. From commercial fishing in New England starting from age 8 to crewing on the largest ships in the world, to working on coastwise tugboats and oil barges. I married a Brazilian beauty queen and don't get to see her enough.
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