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THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS FROM AN AMERICAN Merchant Mariner

Monday, July 28, 2025

Feast or famine

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 Hooboy, getting my ass kicked the last couple of days between the heat and the workload.  Today and tomorrow too, looks like.   I'm sti...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Fat Aunt Fatima, RIP.

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 So Inappropriately Hot Foreign Wife lost another one of the old aunts last night.    There was Skinny Aunt Fatima, and Fat Aunt Fatima. Fat...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Other People's Idiocy

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 From my posts I sound like a hotheaded loudmouth.    I'm not really that hotheaded, though. I use this blog as a place for my id to go ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Sunrise, 2025

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 I've been more positive in general over the past few months. It's a work thing and I think it's carried over into my personal l...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Big oof. Poor guy.

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 So the cargo surveyor mafia in NY/NJ is run by Egyptians.     These are 3rd party contractors that go and double check all of our cargo vol...
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Friday, July 11, 2025

Ordinary Time continues

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     Well, I'm still here, and while it's another unexceptional day workwise, it's been a good chance to walk the HQ's decks...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Ordinary Time

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 Well, I'm on days now. Since B and I are staying aboard until Big E, our other partner, comes back from med leave, we decided to rotate...
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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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