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Old 10-03-2007 | 10:47 PM
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Nice pictures....damn my life is boring.
Old 10-04-2007 | 01:40 AM
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Originally Posted by thunder550
Sweet! I've always wondered what it would be like to sail across the ocean like that. What do you think of it?
I like it, it's always different out there. It's never the same from one day to the next. Weather can change suddenly and certainly drastically without warning and it's always beautiful. I was never an 8 to 5 kinda guy and this lets me go places that I ordinarily wouldn't choose to go. Never boring out there but it's certainly not for everyone. Cool thing is you see stuff that you ordinarily would never see even if you planned it or went looking for it.
Here's a dead whale I saw once, lets of sharks and scavengers hanging around.

Bunch of random things really, also some guys go pretty nutty out there and do pretty crazy things. Also noticed alot of people lead double lives too, this one guy that I just sailed with had a girlfriend and kid in Saipan and he was married with a family in Texas.
Old 10-04-2007 | 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by laynlow77
great pics! id appreciate more of them if you have the time
Sure thing mike! Not sure what you want to see more of but here's some sunset's from another job/ship. I have pictures of ship wrecks, cargo ops, funny asian people, pictures of different ports and the people/cities. Let me know if there's anything specifically.




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Funny people pics get my vote!
Old 10-04-2007 | 02:35 AM
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Originally Posted by trever1t
Funny people pics get my vote!
Alrighty then!!!

Here's a lazy checker that is tiny enough to fit inside a cone bin. Sat in there for 3 hours!!





This guy was a big marital artist fanatic and was practicing moves all night!


Everyone throws out the peace sign!





Some buddies with a South Korean store owner who sells us bunch of stuff for really really cheap!
Huge blankets, leather jackets, shoes, movies!


Picture of a wedding that I crashed in Hong Kong! Good peeps...bridesmaids could of been a little hotter but whatevs man!
Old 10-04-2007 | 02:40 AM
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lol, the first bridesmaid on the right of the bride will do just fine...damn I want to go...can i stow away next time?
Old 10-04-2007 | 03:08 AM
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I got some pretty crazy stow-away stories for you, might make you rethink that idea!
Leaving the Dominican Republic a guy climbed up our rudder and sat on top of our rudder stock (pic included) and layed there all the way to Houston, was 4 days without food and water and sitting above the vibrating propeller. If he fell off he would of been thrown into a pretty tricky and dangerous place. Pilot boat saw him as they approached us and the Coast Guard took him off and sent him packing back to DR. That was one of the few that actually made it alive. Seen some containers with some unfortunate people who didn't make it to the destination alive.

He was hiding in that gap between the rudder and the bottom of the stern plating.
Old 10-04-2007 | 03:36 AM
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I've heard of people stowing in airtight containers before, gruesome. Kinda sucks the sob made it all the way on the rudder, you know that had to be brutal, and then get sent home!
I had a great time in DR....I got stories there
Old 10-04-2007 | 12:18 PM
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damn good stories there... so what exactly do you do on the ship? how many people are on board when yall go out? yall help out the captain or something? yeah the girl next to the bride reminds me of a chinese massage parlor?... lol....

how about some shipwreck pics?..
Old 10-04-2007 | 12:40 PM
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I enjoyed the pics! Thank you for sharing them



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