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17 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

 

 

@Hoss thought you would find this interesting.

 

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Barvpilots are extremely well paid. Depending on the port, many around 500K. 
they are advisors to the ship captain. If they give bad advice and run aground or whatever, no responsibility!  The jobs are coveted, in addition to being licensed & qualified, you have to be voted into the organization. Many are father to son type deals. 
 

FWIW, my inland towboat captains make 150-170K. Takes about 5 years to go from green deck hand to licensed wheelman. In my 45 years I’ve never laid off a captain. I’ve fired a few, but usually only hurt myself as they will have another job tomorrow, I’ll be scrambling to cover the position!  
 

yes, I earned my license, but did not care to be gone from home, so I run a desk now. The inland maritime industry has been very good to me and my family. 
 

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4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Can't watch the videos. The 360 view format doesn't work without installing the youtube app by google. :(

 

That's odd.  I'll go to my desktop and try loading from there.

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1 minute ago, Hoss said:

Barvpilots are extremely well paid. Depending on the port, many around 500K. 
they are advisors to the ship captain. If they give bad advice and run aground or whatever, no responsibility!  The jobs are coveted, in addition to being licensed & qualified, you have to be voted into the organization. Many are father to son type deals. 
 

FWIW, my inland towboat captains make 150-170K. Takes about 5 years to go from green deck hand to licensed wheelman. In my 45 years I’ve never laid off a captain. I’ve fired a few, but usually only hurt myself as they will have another job tomorrow, I’ll be scrambling to cover the position!  
 

yes, I earned my license, but did not care to be gone from home, so I run a desk now. The inland maritime industry has been very good to me and my family. 
 

 

OK, now I'm curious...may I ask your profession,  background,  etc?

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Had a great HS Teacher who was a certified Pilot in a couple of ports, can't recall which many decades on.  He tried to talk me into it and had a path to follow.  One of many roads not taken, no idea what the endgame would have been.

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4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Can't watch the videos. The 360 view format doesn't work without installing the youtube app by google. :(

 

 

These aren't the same ones, but:
 

 

 

I'll tell ya, the first time I drove up past Stockton and saw a containership that far inland it really tweaked my mind.
 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

OK, now I'm curious...may I ask your profession,  background,  etc?

I’m operations manager for a towboat company. We operate boats in S Texas, primarily between Houston & Brownsville. Occasionally to Port Arthur area, and we used to haul sugar from Rio Hondo Tx to New Orleans. The sugar cane farmers shut down due to not being able to get their water allotment out of the Rio Grande. (Mexico was using more than their share, US Govt would not enforce treaty)

we move a lot of scrap steel, steel coils, structural steel, fertilizer, petroleum products, chemicals, project cargoes, petroleum coke, you name it, we move it. Towboats are most efficient form of transportation. We can move more cargo per gallon of fuel than any other form of transportation. 
 

I’ll pm you a link to our website 

 

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9 minutes ago, Hoss said:

I’m operations manager for a towboat company. We operate boats in S Texas, primarily between Houston & Brownsville. Occasionally to Port Arthur area, and we used to haul sugar from Rio Hondo Tx to New Orleans. The sugar cane farmers shut down due to not being able to get their water allotment out of the Rio Grande. (Mexico was using more than their share, US Govt would not enforce treaty)

we move a lot of scrap steel, steel coils, structural steel, fertilizer, petroleum products, chemicals, project cargoes, petroleum coke, you name it, we move it. Towboats are most efficient form of transportation. We can move more cargo per gallon of fuel than any other form of transportation. 
 

I’ll pm you a link to our website 

 

 

 

Thanks!  Sounds like fascinating,  and stressful,  work.

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