HAWSEPIPER: The Longest Climb

THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS FROM AN AMERICAN Merchant Mariner

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Grind

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 Well, I'm in it now. I've been at work for a week and I've got 3 weeks to go. When I get home, the holidays will be starting up...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Still not dead, but closer than

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It's a small thing, but I can't remember being this comfortable on a plane before.  It's the tween season here in FL, where I...
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Sunday, October 19, 2025

I'm not dead yet!

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 But I am at home. So, turns out that despite being in a good headspace for the 4 months I was at work, being home showed me that I was beat...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

The longest taxi ride ever

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 I'm at the airport. And I am alive. I don't know if it was worth living through what just happened.   Taxi from Bayonne New Jersey ...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Last watch

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 Halfway through my last watch. Home tomorrow.  Channel Fever finally hit me full on. I'm ready to GTFO. 
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Night watch

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 Well, I'm on nights now. Thus far it hasn't worked to my advantage-  virtually all of our active moves have followed me, seemingly ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Channel fever

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 Well, I finally am starting to disengage here on the HQ I guess, and thoughts of home are kicking in intrusively in my mind during the day....
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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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