Deckhand in a sentence as a noun

My fellow deckhands were still busy with their cameras. So I said, yes!

We had a poor deckhand running up and down fjords for days breaking them in. In BC. In winter.

Sometimes you have to choose whether to be the captain of a dinghy or a deckhand on a battleship.

Sure, when I worked on boats as a deckhand in Kentucky, I know that international politics were intricately tied into my day to day life. On a serious note, most people don't vote.

The "Madonna" wench put sound files full of swearing that would embarassa deckhand on file sharrrring networks. These files probably only appealed to perrrverrts, but piracy is filled with such perrrverrrts.

Then open the tank valve next to an old outboard motor or a deckhand smoking a cigarette. Sport diving with flammable mixes is something that only works in hacker fantasy land, not the real world.

This is because the husbands would bring their fishing egos with them from the lower 48 states and not listen to the deckhands. But the wives, with no preconceived ideas, would listen carefully and do things the right way to catch halibut.

As a former professional deckhand who has worked on small fishing craft, my take on this would not be that he elected to go down with his ship. If that has ever actually happened outside of myth and fable then it has at least been very rare.

Even if you switched too commmercial fishing you'd probably be the one complaining that he's stuck at deckhand because some other guy kissed the captain's butt to make first mate.

If I put down whatever generic name they actually do use most employers would probably assume I'd been a deckhand on a cross channel ferry or something

To put this in comparison, my nephew at 17, was a deckhand on a tugboat in a mining port making $120K+. Now that he has a license to captain a vessel up to 25 metres I believe he's rapidly approaching if not exceeding $200K. Now this isn't without expenses either.

>> To put this in comparison, my nephew at 17, was a deckhand on a tugboat in a mining port making $120K+. Now that he has a license to captain a vessel up to 25 metres I believe he's rapidly approaching if not exceeding $200K. I think the major problem is salary.

Deckhand definitions

noun

a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor

See also: roustabout