[QUOTE=tugsailor;100964]Sunmar (a Norwegian group, Hans something ???) bought the SUNMAR SEA at a Marshall’s Sale in Savannah where she had been seized for running drugs… Sunmar planned to sail her to Korea for a new forebody, but they ran into financial trouble and had to leave her in Savannah for a year. A couple years later they got their act together and Sunmar had her working in the Aleutians, but Sunmar didn’t last all that long.[/QUOTE]
At that time the outfit Western Pioneer was operating some vessels on that run, the Sculpin, Dolphin, can’t think of the others. A fair number of the captains mates and engineers were from the fisheries side, off the processors and so forth. Sunmar came in with a deep-sea approach but with not much local knowledge. I think the Sea T-boned another ship and they sank killing, I think the chief?
My impression was they thought they were a notch above the rest of us. We all enjoyed a little (or more then a little) schadenfreude when they broke down and we had to tow them.
The outfit I worked for had the Marine express then the Snowbird and later the Sea Producer. The Sea Producer lost about $1 million in cargo. It was a big lawsuit with Trident Seafoods.
EDIT: I came across the other day,post about first trip as master on the Sky.