# Preventing Burnout at Sea

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/preventing-burnout-at-sea/65966>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [April 25, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/preventing-burnout-at-sea/65966 "2023-04-25T09:25:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![johnny.dollar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@johnny.dollar](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/johnny.dollar)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/preventing-burnout-at-sea/65966/41 "2023-05-04T12:32:55Z")

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> [@MAK](#):
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> the most complicated way to say ‘Don’t fuck with it

Yeah, well, you’ll have that on these big jobs.

And there’s no convincing fools, because everybody is scared of their shadow and the office…“muh NS5 says so…” Nevermind when opening up a motor, it’s packed full of 20lbs of grease cause “muh NS5” says grease the bearings every 2 months.

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**Author:** ![Bayrunner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/bayrunner/32/966_2.png) [@Bayrunner](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Bayrunner)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/preventing-burnout-at-sea/65966/42 "2023-05-04T17:05:01Z")

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Getting off the boat for a few hours was always welcomed.

The only thing that came close was the boat being shut down for a day or 2 and catch up on sleep.

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