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[QUOTE=brjones;83465]If your clothes were not shot after a shipyard then you didnât get much accomplished.[/QUOTE]
True, or one who arrives at the end of activities.
[QUOTE=brjones;83465] I have a love / hate thing with shipyards. I like being able to get things you want done, but hate the chaos involved.[/QUOTE]
I know what you mean, it doesnât matter what yard you find yourself itâs always chaos. Have you ever been at Norfolk Ship and Dry Dock Company? Seems I would find myself there every other year. Getty Oil used them, so did MSC. I heard a lot of grumbling about that outfit but my experience was they were just as good or shacky as any of the others, stateside and overseas. It was an easy walk to town but the neighborhood was a tad rough. I never had any trouble but there were stories.
I was in the Haifa Shipyard, the welders, fabricators, machinists were all from Russia, they were dam good at their jobs, did excellent work, and a lot of fun to go out and share some drinks. Bad news, the small cafe outside the yard where we would go was bombed several years ago. Iâm so sick of this shit - canât imagine anyone who isnât.
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Excellent choice - What License endorsement had he? Iâd like to get one.
Excellent choice - What License endorsement had he? Iâd like to get one.[/QUOTE]
I would be courius to know how to get a nuclear powered space ship endorsement as well. That would have to impress the lady folk.
I think just about any engineer that has been through a shipyard period will have a love hate relationship with them. It is good for getting things done, but man what a pain in the buttocks.
I kind of miss the old days of getting dirty working on EMDâs, ALCOâs and the nasty detroitâs. I have not found anything yet that will get the stain of EMD or Detroit oil out of your clothes. They usually didnât last long before being tossed. I just canât imagine anyone wanting or needing to wear a uniform. Atleast anyone that actually works for a living.
I have to say that I donât get near as dirty as I used to, nowdays with the diesel electric boats I work, we just have 6 big Cats, everything else is electric. I change more power supplys than power packs. More diodes and rectifers than injectors. The torque wrench and gasket scrapper usually sit in the tool box, the volt meter and torx bits are more important now. Woking for these big stinking oil companies, we go through about 2 or 3 ink cartridges on the printer every week from all the paper work. My clothes actually last a couple trips nowdays.
My how the times have changed. I some what envy the older guys that got to work the deep draft ships with steam, that is something I will probably never get to see, just hear about the old stories.
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;83476]I would be courius to know how to get a nuclear powered space ship endorsement as well. That would have to impress the lady folk.[/QUOTE]
OK - While youâre doing all that Iâll be in the Holodeck.
[QUOTE=Diesel;30496]Gay, is all I have to say.[/QUOTE]
As Liberace with a diamond dildo in his ass.
[QUOTE=ChiefRob;83477]The torque wrench and gasket scrapper usually sit in the tool box[/QUOTE]
Tool boxâŚYOU HAVE TOOLS ON THAT BOAT? No effing way! The OSV companies refuse to let their engineers have tools or spare parts for that matter! Maybe a filter wrench but other than thatâŚcall the tech!
Now youâre just being shitty. Times have changed we are expected to actually know stuff now a days. Not saying a tech doesnât still have to come out occasionally.
[QUOTE=c.captain;83485]Tool boxâŚYOU HAVE TOOLS ON THAT BOAT? No effing way! The OSV companies refuse to let their engineers have tools or spare parts for that matter! Maybe a filter wrench but other than thatâŚcall the tech![/QUOTE]
Well there are alot of the caliber engineers you are refering to that you donât want them to have tools or actually work on anything. However I donât work on that class of mudboats, I work on the construction boats and we do fix things here, and have a good selection of tools and spare parts. We rarely go to the dock. We get all our supplys and spare parts sent out by supply boat. I donât think we been to the dock in 3 or 4 months.
Now if we can only talk PHI into giving us frequent flyer miles, for some free drinks or something I would be good.
I think you are refering to the old ratty mud boats, with engineers that are nothing more than a glorified tankerman, they are not interested in learning anything because then they might be expected to actually do something besides hook up a mud hose.
Talking about uniforms, things certainly have changed since my days at Kings Point.
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Perhaps Iâm overstating the case but this must a dandy uniform day.
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I think you are refering to the old ratty mud boats, with engineers that are nothing more than a glorified tankerman, they are not interested in learning anything because then they might be expected to actually do something besides hook up a mud hose.[/QUOTE]
No, Iâm referring specifically to your boat. When I was there the only tools belonged to that guy who lived in Honduras. I recall no spare parts except for a hose or a belt or maybe a few to keep the toilets working?
That illiterate skinny fool of an engineer from Thibodeaux actually had a fight with me over swearing up and down until he was blue in the face that the propulsion motors were DC and that the VFDs in the Z-drive room were SCRs! I AM NOT SHITTING YOUâŚTHIS IS NOT BS! He was incapable of being able to read the technical manuals!
[QUOTE=c.captain;83494]No, Iâm referring specifically to your boat. When I was there the only tools belonged to that guy who lived in Honduras. I recall no spare parts except for a hose or a belt or maybe a few to keep the toilets working?
That illiterate skinny fool of an engineer from Thibodeaux actually had a fight with me over swearing up and down until he was blue in the face that the propulsion motors were DC and that the VFDs in the Z-drive room were SCRs! I AM NOT SHITTING YOUâŚTHIS IS NOT BS! He was incapable of being able to read the technical manuals![/QUOTE]
I know the 2 you are talking about and they have both been promoted to eff up bigger and better things. It is alot different now. I would not trust either one of them with the rescue boat. As a matter of fact the skinny one actuall but gas in the diesel powered FRC after he got promoted to his new boat, and wondered why it would not run. Nothing suprises me about stories from those 2.
We are on long term charter to one of the big oil companies, so we get what we want now, well within reason I guess. alot different though, from just a couple years ago.
I buy my coveralls at the Army/Navy surplus store.
Iâve had more colors than I knew existed.
Sometimes I get white ones, they turn gray/black pretty quick.
If you did wear a uniform, you might be entitled to some of these medals to put on it.
http://www.usmm.org/medals.html
They are for sale at the Kings Point Sea Store.
[QUOTE=Sweat-n-Grease;83450]I have seen a few engineers wear white coveralls - Always thought they looked out of place but hey, itâs their business, not mine, but they did look funny. Lots of port engineers use to don white coveralls. Anybody recall Lykes Castro brothers?[/QUOTE]
They love their white coveralls at Keystone Shipping.
There was a guy in my reserve unit who actually wore that Merchant Marine Service Pin on his Navy uniform. I asked him where he got it and why he thought he could wear it since he clearly couldnât. âBut the Maritime Administrator gave it to me when I did my AT at MARADâ he said.
[QUOTE=catherder;84016]They love their white coveralls at Keystone Shipping.[/QUOTE]
Yup and with an outfit known with the unusual name as âAmerican -Foreign Steam Ship Company.â
[QUOTE=KPEngineer;84018]There was a guy in my reserve unit who actually wore that Merchant Marine Service Pin on his Navy uniform. I asked him where he got it and why he thought he could wear it since he clearly couldnât. âBut the Maritime Administrator gave it to me when I did my AT at MARADâ he said.[/QUOTE]
WTF is up with such folks?