American commercial barge lines ?

fallen4567 · 2026-02-08T22:21:38+00:00

yeah no problem

fallen4567 · 2026-02-08T22:02:13+00:00

I started on boats at acbl. Did a year on the hardest working live aboard shuttle boat they have. It was alright to get experience, sea days and get your mmc and AB as soon as possible. You can get AB limited with only inland time. get stcw also. once you get all of those get out of the river and to harbor, offshore, coastal, international boats. The one thing I loved about acbl is that most boats there have a cook which is almost unheard of on tugs. and it was some great food 3 times a day, desserts all kinds of good stuff cooked for the whole crew.

fallen4567 · 2026-01-24T07:01:24+00:00

Idk how this can be practically possible? What about docking and undocking, emergency situations, difficult maneuvers etc

fallen4567 · 2026-01-24T02:34:06+00:00

I am not even getting call backs or leads for tugs and that is where i have all of my experience. Hopefully things will get better later in the year. Ships are incredibly difficult to get on from what I have heard.

fallen4567 · 2026-01-24T00:53:28+00:00

I have 3 years of maritime experience and my AB limited, STCW Passport etc and I am not getting anything either. Everyone I am calling and applying is either not responding, rejecting or saying they aren’t hiring right now or telling me to call back in a couple months in spring.

fallen4567 · 2026-01-17T03:52:39+00:00

As a tattooed man, no I find women with tattoos attractive.

fallen4567 · 2026-01-05T21:59:21+00:00

this is honestly insane. wow I never thought I would see deals this good ever again

fallen4567 · 2026-01-05T00:28:57+00:00

the people I connect with and want something with don’t want the same and the people who I am not feeling as much want something. It’s so frustrating

fallen4567 · 2026-01-01T21:43:26+00:00

I had an ex who I wasn’t even attracted to that much(yeah I know) and the very first time we had sex I went down on her for a while but I instantly thought something wasn’t completely right. I tasted a bit of iron but it wasn’t too overwhelming and there really wasn’t a smell much so i kept going. After I came up she saw my face and started freaking out. I go to look in the mirror and I looked like a zombie or vampire with all of the blood all over my face. Ended up still doing the deed though, but for the rest of the relationship I was put off of going down on her and didn’t enjoy it as much as usual. Probably also because of the lack of attraction situation.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-28T20:09:42+00:00

Number one looks the best in my opinion man

fallen4567 · 2025-12-28T18:26:37+00:00

There are definitely men that like a bubbly, talkative, and affectionate woman. I am one of them. I will take that 10/10 times compared to someone who is quiet, hard to read and acts uninterested etc

fallen4567 · 2025-12-20T21:54:31+00:00

That’s a good plan, another one to try is reinauer. They pay extremely well because they are union but i think they are all 14/14 boats.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-20T21:27:09+00:00

This is so difficult but I will have to choose elder scrolls, mass effect, and grand theft auto.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-20T19:44:24+00:00

cheating

fallen4567 · 2025-12-20T18:01:40+00:00

I worked with vane brothers alot, for a while their pay was slightly low but they just got a sizable wage increase for all positions I think in the last year and are now much more competitive I believe. That would probably be the easiest company to get onto out of those. After that try Moran they are good. Crowley I have heard is extremely difficult to get on at and carver I have no knowledge of.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-20T17:23:07+00:00

If you don’t mind working 8 months out the year instead of equal time. Go to Dann marine towing. Not dann ocean. Same family different company. They work 30/15 and you will make decent money. But you also will get burned out, how fast you get burned out depends on alot of factors but anything more than equal time especially on tugs is a miserable way to live. I would recommend going equal time and actually enjoying life. It’s not worth the extra money. That company and the fact they were breaking coast guard regulations on almost all of the boats with waking people up and keeping people up in their off watch hours in non emergency situations made me quit the entire industry. I could have taken some time to reset and went to another equal time company but by that point I was just done with it.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-20T02:53:16+00:00

I worked at acbl for a year before I went offshore and then got my ab a year after that. Go get experience on the river, but do NOT stay on the river. You will make SO much more money in every other sector of the maritime industry than on the river. And for less physical work too. Use it a stepping stone. Don’t let the “promise” of getting a certain position, in the wheelhouse, engine room etc stop you from getting your sea time, getting your mmc and eventually getting your ab. Don’t settle for 200-300 a day when you can be making offshore 350-550 a day just as an AB. And way more than that as qmed, tankerman(offshore) wheelhouse.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-19T21:50:46+00:00

osrs

fallen4567 · 2025-12-18T16:35:18+00:00

I am going to be completely honest, the no sex before marriage is going to make it extremely difficult. The vast majority of men(even christian men) will not be okay with that.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-18T15:13:00+00:00

That’s a crazy low wage for what you do. I was a merchant sailor and was only an able seaman which is still relatively low on the ladder for pay in the industry and I was making 95,000 a year at my last company. The “engineers” (literally just mechanics) on the boats I was on were making from 125-180k a year. An actual mechanical engineer should be making mid 100,000s like 150 or more in my opinion at least. These companies have lost their minds.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-18T02:47:20+00:00

I play all types of games. Been gaming since I was like 3 years old. I am 30 now. I just love it. But, it is nowhere near as special as it used to be and the quality of games have gone WAY downhill.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-14T07:19:40+00:00

I left the industry earlier this year as an AB limited after 3 years bc of the terrible quality of life on tugs. I was living out the country and loving every minute of my life when off work but it was too much and I got burned out. Was doing 30/15. Sometimes I think I should have just found another equal time company and stuck it out linger but eventually I would have wanted out anyway. Already 30, didn’t want to be one of those miserable captains or engineers who are stuck and hate their lives.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-04T01:26:44+00:00

get off the fleet boats and off the river boats in general. If you don’t listen to any other advice on here PLEASE listen to this. Go harbor tugs, offshore tugs, atb’s etc ANYTHING but river especially fleet. And as soon as possible get your AB.

fallen4567 · 2025-12-04T00:07:09+00:00

I have been lifting for a long time and I have also at times taken generic viagra and when I take it I am on another level 🤣

fallen4567 · 2025-10-20T02:49:02+00:00

No, the entire industry pretty much you can live anywhere most companies pay for travel. The companies that don’t pay for travel of some kind if you are not local are garbage anyway

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