Keep getting this in my Facebook feed
I’d apply but I am too ugly
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Reminds me of a thought I occasionally have:
“If I was younger, had better hair and a nicer smile, a better tan, and H#!! of a lot more patience with people, I would consider looking for a yacht job.”
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You guys are funny! 
I thought about going into acting but that career path has a high divorce rate, leads to a lot of alcohol/substance dependency issues & their kids seem to turn out all fucked up. Too much hassle…
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Sounds ideal, where do I sign?
Go for it! They probably need character actors too 
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Be careful. The movie they are casting for might require a different sort of tug job than you think…
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I don’t know about that. Ever see “Tugboat Annie”? 
No, but I’ve read the stories in my grandparents’ 1930s copies of Saturday Evening Post and/or Collier’s magazines. Ditto the tramp Inchcliffe Castle and her engineer Mister Glencannon.
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I’ve never seen Tugboat Annie either but I’ve read the “About” page of Tradewinds Towing & seen their old family fotos. If those kids raised on a tugboat can find 1 dramatic moment from their later teen years that could be a good ending to a book (or movie), it would be a blockbuster with a good writer & cast.
Those Glencannon stories are great!
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Here is one from the way, way, way back machine…
“Twice in a Lifetime”, a 1974 TV pilot starring Ernest Borgnine as a retired Navy cook and the owner and skipper of a derelict old wooden tug trying to find work for it in San Pedro. It also starred Della Reese as his lady friend who happened to own a waterfront greasy spoon.
Shown once and I guess the negatives were burned immediately afterwards. I remember watching it at the time but can’t remember one bit of the story.
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It’s real. The guy spearheading it is a captain I have worked for in the past.
He’s a top notch guy and quite the character so I wish him great success with this movie.
My daughter was talking about things she saw on “Below Decks”. I would be a deckhand putting bait on hooks and taking fish off on a headboat full of puking tourists before I would work on a “rental yacht”.
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I’m flummoxed (learned that word in the public affairs officer course, four days after “beset”) by the premise: dude out on parole, seeking redemption by working on/owning a tugboat.
I know the NMC is beset by disfunction, but it seems unlikely.
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Closest I could claim to being a “star”, we were docked in Wellington, NZ and we took school kids on tours of the ship. Some of the kids asked for our autographs, which we signed in their books. I was thinking years from now the kids were wondering “Who the heck is Darrell Parks”.
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