On my current rig there is:
Bunny
Noodles
Thunder
Flea
Rambo
Maybelline
and some others I cant remember right now.
I can only remember one from my last rig and that is MEATBALL. Funniest nickname ever.
On my current rig there is:
Bunny
Noodles
Thunder
Flea
Rambo
Maybelline
and some others I cant remember right now.
I can only remember one from my last rig and that is MEATBALL. Funniest nickname ever.
I believe that there are several out there that share the nickname “piece of shit”
Some tug nicknames:
Hippie
Pink Panther (sailed with him working for two different companies)
Goofy
Blood and Guts
Max Headroom
Worm
Fat Sister
Can’t get right
Chicken
Kong
Boudreux, even though his last name was Hebert.
Skinny jeans.
There always seems to be at least one “cornbread” at all of them. Also,
Catfish
Big Hoss
Skillet Lips
Porkchop
Hear those a lot. Always had a hard time understanding how they consider us “boat trash” after hearing those nicknames on the VHF
Got an OS from new Orleans on the boat now with the self given nickname of “Big Sleazy”…
We have “The Brain” & “Big Hoss”.
The last ATB that I was Chief on was called the “Pig Rig” the Captain hated when we called it that. LOL
Coondog
cornbread
Skeeter
Squirl
catfish
Ace
Pervert
Knock’em Stiff
scratch and sniff
Boo
Chubs
Skinny
Tiny
Scooter
Cookie Monster
and my favorite…SLUGGO!!!
[QUOTE=Tugs;68070]The last ATB that I was Chief on was called the “Pig Rig” the Captain hated when we called it that. LOL[/QUOTE]
You could have called the ATB that I was Chief on many years ago the same thing. I had similar names, but have put those memories out of my head. Oh, other than “Death Ride”. Hell, it could be the same one. . . .
Tug nickname
Unknown Manson construction pilebutt looking at Westar,s Betty L. " She sure ain,t fast and she sure ain,t pretty, she,s just SWEATY and the SWEATY BETTY was christened
I didn’t see these listed
Redbone
Stringbean
Smurf
Stretch
Pig Pen
and of course
Peanut
[QUOTE=Capt. Lee;68090]Coondog
cornbread
Skeeter
Squirl
catfish
Ace
Pervert
Knock’em Stiff
scratch and sniff
Boo
Chubs
Skinny
Tiny
Scooter
Cookie Monster
and my favorite…SLUGGO!!![/QUOTE]
I knew Sluggo was your favorite!! Smiley, white boy, JayBird, Meat, Half hitch,
Chicken Hawk
Sea Hawk
Worked with a guy with the nickname of “Psycho.”
Unfortunately, he continually tried to prove that he deserved the name.
Fortunately, I only had a very short hitch with him, and I’ve moved on to (a) better company.
Dipshit/Scrubbin’ Bubbles
Coondog
Cornbread
Tiny
Hollywood
Spaz
Bubba
Link (as in the missing one I guess)
Cornfed not to be confused with Cornbred (different person!)
Big Country
Tiger
Chickenhawk
Arm-saw
Smokey
Slickey
Rocky
Romeo
Cooterflap
Max Draw
Ding-Dong
Pancho
Peanut
Stump
Weenie
RIP
Fly
Turbo
Slim
Fatty
Fish Lips
Big-O
Bucktight
Double Bang
Jag
Mittens
And that’s just off the top of my head!
My best one is Gray Balls!!! I had a deckhand at one time that was from Gibson and he was about fifty and he had a head full of gray hair.I was about twenty- five so of course I had to find a good name to give him. He liked the name much people around bayou black started calling him by it!!