Ken Johns ⚓️

I’m watching the Super Bowl on Telemundo in New Mexico and people have been speaking Spanish here since the sixteenth century.

With my late wife on the field 2013. Im standing behind a beautiful woman with my arms around her waist on the Seahawks field

Coolest forklift ever. Green forklift with Seahawks and Sounders logos

Go Hawks!

I read a book about the history of Prussia and I kept having to stop and think which goddamn Frederick is this?

This takes me back to ‘88 and the time I caught two guys smoking weed…on our coast guard cutter in…the paint locker.

It was a good training opportunity for the deckhands from San Diego and the Philippines to learn how to shovel snow.

I was working on a ship in Baltimore at the time. Pretty snowy I gotta say.

I hate that the coast guard has the noem stink on it but I was doing this when I was a coastie in the eighties

When I lived in Bellevue we had a couple of brutal ice storms. The whole area around Seattle was paralyzed for days. Fuel trucks couldn’t get to our neighborhood gas stations so they rationed gas and had lines like the 70s. Power lines down everywhere, some homes weren’t restored for 2 weeks.

When I was a civilian contract mariner for the MSC through my union we went to classes by where the fire department has their school. Liberty Station is great.

I’m from New Mexico and lived in Bellevue for twenty years and Taco Time was the worst. The salsa tastes like ketchup

Skeedaddle

As soon as I sent this question I realized I can’t really remember any chief engineers names because I always called them chief

Jake and Rocky

The Charlton was one of the few LMSRs I never worked on but I’m wondering if I knew your father-in-law

They’re such big bois they gave us Kawasaki mules in 2010. I drove my wife down into the cargo holds and when I told her we’re below the waterline she said let’s go back up

I’ve worked on a bunch of these ships including in Baltimore. We lost three mooring lines and a gangway in the Mississippi awhile back but fortunately we didn’t come off the dock. Also the USNS Gilliland sprung a leak in its keel in Baltimore in 2016, first time using shoring that wasn’t training

If it can break moorings shorties are certainly in danger. These ships have very large mooring lines

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Major junior is fun too. The Seattle Thunderbirds have a radio controlled Oberto snacks blimp that drops beef jerky in the stands

I haven’t seen the show yet but I’m a huge hockey fan. I took a gay friend of mine to a Seattle Thunderbirds game awhile back. A couple of the players were shoving each other and getting in each other’s faces. My friend said they’re not mad they just want to touch, they should kiss already

I miss her so much

My late wife Leana’s Ganesh tattoo. She was half Indian and quarter Ukrainian and Romanian and very beautiful. Merry Christmas

Egyptian crow Suez Canal

Sri Lankan crows Colombo Sri Lanka

Crows 🐦‍⬛ Egyptian and Sri Lankan

Duck dabbling in Balboa Park San Diego

Duck butt

Seagull on old ferry slip Port Townsend Washington 2004

Sherman tank on flatbed inside a car carrier ship

Green English Bristol sports car in a car carrier on a flatbed. This and the tank went from Europe to the US. Both of them are very expensive

The duality of a car carrier

Typo in alt text bulkhead not bullhead

Yellow steel ship door with red fire extinguisher placards. Bullhead is white with black stenciling next to door listing where the door leads to.

Inside of ship door painted yellow with stenciling reading DOG ALL DOGS KEEP RAIN OUT. Dogs are locks on exterior doors, they are the angled pieces on six parts of the door. The red rod is a dogging handle used to ensure water tightness

Ship doors

Stern of blue ship with mooring lines coming off aft mooring deck to shore text is HONOR on top line WILMINGTON DE on second line

Worked on this car carrier in Northern Europe then took it to Baltimore in January 2022 and got minor frostbite from line handling. Then we went to Charleston and it was sixty four degrees and I felt like I was in the tropics.

Forgot alt text. Old brick industrial looking building with AJ Sackett & Sons painted on it.