If anyone can give me some suggestion. I currently hold a 100 ton inland masters also a Ab and stcw 95 looking to work in the new York harbor or in the gulf on supply boat any suggestions on who is hiring?
An inland license is just about useless. Sorry.
All the 100 ton jobs around NY require you to live close by. Tough way to live and work. It’s expensive.
You do make more in NY but there are many more options down south.
You could probably get A.B. work in gulf. But once you do some searching and reading on these threads you will see that a visit to the company is WAY more productive that calling or emailing.
Here we go again…
[QUOTE=Capnklump;79062]Here we go again…[/QUOTE]
I swear these guys are just downright obtuse but I’m tired unsheathing the pointy stick over and over so I’ve just given up with using it…
C.captain at ur blatant rude comments are funny then just rude now just annoying not everyone has 50 yrs on the water and tons of experience and not to mention endless hours to be an ass to someone who needs help! I have been out here 19 yrs and moved up thru the hawed pipe and have no patience so I can understand being a little irritated at stupid questions but most of these have never even seen a supply boat or. Few boat and don’t no shot about it out here. I see where you have told them to do there research before asking! Well moron the questions are them doing research! So go ahead pull out your little pointy stick and I’ll but it where you really want!! How do you have so much time to comment on here? Are you teaching at some low level marine school? You know what the say! " Those who can’t Teach! ". Have a nice day Capt.
Yea I know damn smart phone screwed some of my wording up! But I like that pic man can I use it! LOL!!!
The statement should have read like this.
C.captain at first ur comments are funny then just rude now just annoying not everyone has 50 yrs on the water and tons of experience and not to mention endless hours to be an ass to someone who needs help! I have been out here 19 yrs and moved up thru the hawespipe and have no patience so I can understand being a little irritated at stupid questions but most of these guys have never even seen a supply boat or crew boat and don’t no shit about it out here. I see where you have told them to do there research before asking! Well moron the questions, are them doing research! So go ahead pull out your little pointy stick and I’ll but it where you really want!! How do you have so much time to comment on here? Are you teaching at some low level marine school? You know what the say! " Those who can’t Teach! ". Have a nice day Capt.
[QUOTE=Dboys75;79095]How do you have so much time to comment on here? Are you teaching at some low level marine school? You know what the say! " Those who can’t Teach! ". Have a nice day Capt.[/QUOTE]
No I’m out here putting in my time like all the other unwashed working stiffs but if I did teach, I’d teach the little darlings what the real maritime industry is and the right way to go about getting started in it. That is certainly one course of instruction missing from all the various maritime schools but that is because most of the instructors do not come from the industry since experienced mariners can’t afford to make only 1/4 to 1/3 of what they make sailing! It’s a pity but that’s the way it has always been. One would think KP’ers might actually do better in that regard because they don’t have a schoolship but they too end up as clueless fresh fish as well but because most graduates from there aren’t too interested in a seagoing career then it really doesn’t matter all that much in the end.
Here’s one the hawsepipers like yourself can’t argue with is that “everybody” should sail unlicensed even if they are a school graduate. Maybe only a year but they’ll learn more in that one year as an AB or oiler than any maritime academy can ever teach them in a classroom. In fact, why aren’t cadets worked like seamen instead of little mini-me pretend officers?
btw, note that I am not bashing anybody with the stick anymore even though one newb after another still comes on here with those same basic questions. Mostly want to know what companies to contact. Hell plenty of us with years of experience can’t even find work ourselves but they want us to almost walk them right to a company’s front door for them? Like I said, I’m tired of the bashing so I’ll let others bash for me or you can spend the time answering each of their questions. I really don’t care anymore…it’s all gotten very old.
I agree every academy kid should work the deck for at least 3-6 hitches then move up but gradually so they understand what it is like out here for the masses! Cool man, glad you understand where I was coming from but I too understand you just try and give the FNG’s a little credit for at least trying to get some info.
Thats the lazy man’s research. These questions have been discussed here hundreds of times. Read the fucking forum for one of the many that’s asking the same general question you did and you will find your answer.
By the way, when you say you “have stcw”, what so you mean exactly? Do you have STCW-RFPNW or just STCW-BST?
1st i would like to clear things up regarding academy grads. don’t give us all a bad name. true 4 out of 5 are little, pretentious a-holes, and that’s why i can’t stand most of my kind. they get into the schools riding daddy’s coat tails, and then they get the big jobs after graduating doing the same (p.s. kings point is the only one where EVERYONE gets a free ride). then they cry the first time they have to do anything outside of standing a watch. they keep all the blue water jobs in house just like the cajuns do with the gom. BUT DON’T FORGET THAT 1 PERSON OUT OF 5, who slaved their ass off of the school’s slave ship for their required year of sea time, kept their mouth shut, did their work, and didn’t get any help along the way. i’d take any day working unlicensed AND GETTING PAID TO DO SO over the bologna work we had to do on those ships, under the microscope, and without pay. i work in the wheelhouse and on deck still sticking to the “a day’s pay is a day’s pay” attitude. when something breaks, i fix it. on and off the clock, welding, electrical, etc. i’ll do it if i can. anyway, we can all point our fingers and say “academy grads won’t get their hands dirty” or “hawsepipers can’t spell their own names” but i think it all depends on individual work ethic. if you want some hard work, come put some hay up with me for 12 hours a day in july, OR give me a job on your boat and see for yourself. 
secondly, to stay on topic, i see plenty of advertisements for ab jobs in ny harbor working tug and barge. bouchard is one, but i would continue the search for gainful employment in the gom. as for who is hiring in the gulf, i think the majority is trying to solve the same riddle. 100 ton inland is only going to get you a job on dinner cruises, and such, for the most part.
Just saw through a posting on linkedin that McAllister Towing is looking for an entry level deckhand in Providence, Rhode Island.
That’s a deadend job with a deadend company. The guy who quit had been patiently waiting a chance to train. They don’t do any towing. They don’t do anything but ship assist. They don’t have ANYONE who is a DE. And they pay shit. A.B. unlmited paid 220 a day. No vaca, no retirement. No health. Thanks but no thanks.
Here we go with the mac bashing again.
Oh. I’m sorry. Don’t mean to offend. I am SURE ‘Stupid comes in White Stripes’ is a ‘fine’ place to work. But not for some. Actually, not for most! But as mentioned in other threads, it beats a 0/365 schedule.
Went down the bayou today…
Harvey Gulf looking for AB’s
C&G looking for Captains,Engineers and AB’s don’t know the rating.
Botruc needs an engineer
ECO just tied up two boats and spread the crew around their other boats. Definitely not looking for any entry level.
[QUOTE=cappy208;79237]That’s a deadend job with a deadend company. The guy who quit had been patiently waiting a chance to train. They don’t do any towing. They don’t do anything but ship assist. They don’t have ANYONE who is a DE. And they pay shit. A.B. unlmited paid 220 a day. No vaca, no retirement. No health. Thanks but no thanks.[/QUOTE]
Not being in the towing industry I know little of individual companies’ mindset when it comes to helping their employees advance, but first heard of McAllister when I read this article about their participation in a program to help build the ranks of qualified mariners:
What happened to this program?
MARAD closed GMATS a year (?) ago now so that program doesn’t exist anymore.