But I’m enjoying the comments. 
What size and type of oil tanker do you want?
If you are going into the “dark fleet” business I can put you in contact with brokers who will get you a “good used” Aframax, or VLCC. No questions asked, except “show me your money”.
Registration and class can be arranged for a small consideration.
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I once took a delivery job on a new OSV from Louisiana to Las Palmas, Canary Islands. One of the AB’s (Special) was new to the industry & got his seatime on yachts. He said he almost graduated med school but settled for physician’s assistant but decided on a career change because his Asian-American fiancee who was in the NASA program training
to be an astronaut recently died & caused him to be depressed & change his life’s paradigm. Yea Righttttt… I changed the subject from all that nonsense & he turned out to be a nice guy otherwise. A couple days after arriving in Las Palmas I was in an internet cafe & typed his name into a search engine. He was still a licensed PA in the state of FL & I found an obituary about his nasa fiancee who died of an aneurysm while exercising. If a yachty told me he was in the market to buy an oil tanker I wouldn’t think about it too hard because I wouldn’t want my brain to start hurting. Probably bullshit but who knows with those oddballs.
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I generally tend to give such the benefit of the doubt. For most professional mariners yachts and fishboats don’t much enter the conversation but I’d still give the person honest advice.
That’s been break out another ten thousand for years now, everything cost more except the captain seems like. Then you have the MFO’s as we call them, aka owner operators.
I like to think professional mariners are more flippant than mean, sometimes the questions we see come up here are so basic, flippant etc. that it’s hard to ‘‘start over’’ addressing them. We all started at the bottom and should give the newby’s a push in the right direction, … i try, after all the jokes !!!
Hi Timothy ,
Would you be interested in a commercial fishing boat located in the Caribbean ? Equipped and ready for tuna fishing 53 FT .Let me know
Had the exact scenario on a small oil/chem tanker some time ago: A maybe twenty-something year old guy in tracksuit and with an airport duty-free bag in hand was awaiting us on the jetty when we arrived. Very limited English, but claimed he was here to buy the ship…
Turned out he was the son of the owner of a large fishing fleet in Kamchatka, who needed tankers for replenishment at sea. Six weeks later we handed our lady over to the new owners along with two sisters.
Turns out the odds are never 0% nor 100% in shipping.
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