Deckhand Bruce Paterson said they were resting, or as close to sleep as whales get.

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'I came here from Edinburgh eight years ago, got a job as a deckhand and never left.

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He started as a deckhand on boats owned by Puglisi and Sarin, and eventually bought his own boats.

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Several questions focused on the energetic deckhand who had virtually no experience aboard a tall ship, let alone riding out hurricanes.

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He is proud of having been a youthful deckhand on an Arctic salvage boat and a roustabout in the Alberta oilfields.

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In truth, the phone business has more holes in it than a deckhand's trousers, and your ship's been taking on water for years.

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The top priority for the owners as talks progress is an overhaul of the system of basing pay rates on a deckhand position.

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Jimmy Buffett's deckhand sheepishly called after running out of gas.

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The son of prosperous Republican coal-mine owners, Lamm worked his way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even though he didn't have to, spending summers as a lumberjack in Oregon and an ore-boat deckhand on the Great Lakes.

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