Dormitories and living conditions

That old KPer was still there my plebe year. I wish I had got on it more before they got rid of it. I wasn't a fan of the TAGOS boat that replaced her. The original is still around up on the lakes having been converted to an ATB.

I use brown water to mean pretty much everything limited even if you were offshore and the water blue.

EMD-645s are probably my favorite engine. That or a Colt-Pielstick but that is more of a love hate thing.

My KP education was definitely better than I realized at the time. I went sailing on tugs after 10 years shoreside and other than a few first few days jitters I managed just fine. The owner of the company even called me after I left to try and entice me back. This after saying all KPers were A-Holes the first time I met him.
 
That old KPer was still there my plebe year. I wish I had got on it more before they got rid of it. I wasn't a fan of the TAGOS boat that replaced her. The original is still around up on the lakes having been converted to an ATB.

I use brown water to mean pretty much everything limited even if you were offshore and the water blue.

EMD-645s are probably my favorite engine. That or a Colt-Pielstick but that is more of a love hate thing.

My KP education was definitely better than I realized at the time. I went sailing on tugs after 10 years shoreside and other than a few first few days jitters I managed just fine. The owner of the company even called me after I left to try and entice me back. This after saying all KPers were A-Holes the first time I met him.

Yeah, often I didn't say where I got my license. . . most figured I went to school because of my age . . . used to use that to my advantage, but again, that is another story. Sometimes when I did tell someone that I went to KP, I would get called a liar. . . .I took that as a compliment in a twisted way. . . . and I gotcha about the brown water comment. . . I usually take that to mean the Ditch and further inland. I sure saw a lot of blue water in my tug/ATB days. . . and I share your passion for EMDs. . . and those days of GM are long gone, too. . . never dealt with Pielsticks other than as a surveyor. I remember being involved on a crankshaft change on one in an old Texaco tanker. . . tells you how long ago that was. Foreign flag. I ran enough ALCOs to really not like them. . . .
 
I was on the MOKU PAHU, a twin-hull ITB that only hauled raw sugar.
Known throughout the Matson fleet and beyond as the MOKU POORHOUSE.. KPEngineer did you make the run to North Korea when you were on there?
 
Known throughout the Matson fleet and beyond as the MOKU POORHOUSE.. KPEngineer did you make the run to North Korea when you were on there?
No, only Crockett CA to Hawaii and back. It was summer-fall of 94. POORHOUSE sounds about right but where else can you get 2-3 day port stays any more? I can deal with a lot of crap for the right run.
 
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