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I would never doubt that you had personal experience. Me, I worked for German owners in the same crap but larger, 1850 teu, Hagglund cranes etc. I was lucky and had 3 mates feeding Kingston from every where else including Manaus.

Looking back it’s more by luck than good management. My first experience was joining as mate on an AHTS 6 on 6 off. We always arrived at 01:30 at the rig a semi submersible. In those days we would anchor and back up to the rig and secure with Samson lines to the rig. The boat was the Mighty Tide, ne…

I think the point I missed making last night was that I was in my 30’s when all this was going on. The Master of the Salong is 59 :open_mouth:

All German masters on my coasters 1988- 1992 were 62+ . And 1 was chain smoking Camel cigarettes 2 packets per day. 6on/6off . Special WWII kid breed. He is still living and is not even thinking of leaving

Was always saying : smoked fish lasts longer. :joy:

[image] Hogsnort: The boat was the Mighty Tide, new, but nothing beyond the very basics. A UT 704 was “nothing beyond the basics”??? Well by the mid-1980 I presume they were getting quite common, but in comparison with the standard US-built OSVs at the time the UT 704s were introduced they …

I liked the UT 704 . Was Captain of 3 different ones. One even in the livery of the Mighty Tide although she didn’t have the Tide surname.

When I said basics I was being a bit judgemental in hindsight. She was beautiful to handle with independent rudders ( a learning curve), a powerful bow thruster, sharks jaws, towing pins and two tugger winches. There was no capstans, communications with the engineers was mostly by hand signal with …

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