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Ken Johns ⚓️

@deckape.bsky.social
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Landlocked sailor hoping to get back to sea. I grew up in Albuquerque and I consider it my hometown. I really miss the Pacific Northwest though. Big hearted fella.

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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 18h
I spent three days making buckets on my ship in Diego Garcia. Nice chill job sitting on the aft mooring deck but manilla is pretty rough on the hands and hurt for days afterwards
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 19h
Incredible timeline convergence
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me, a coast guard veteran and merchant mariner, reading posts about rust on a ship and struggling not to reply. But really though, it’s a ship and it’s at sea.
White guy wearing black watch cap, black jacket and blue paint covered coveralls on red bow of ship sailing into Elizabeth l, NJ
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I got to watch him eat a burger at a Seattle Sounders game
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The times I have had Jesus in my life
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Annie vs the turkeys at puget sound goat rescue. Annie had never defeated the turkeys
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Full moon with cranes on the USNS Gilliland. Jacksonville 2012. Top 10 favorite picture I’ve taken.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Large crane hooks painted yellow for “safety” surrounded by rusty cloverleaf lashing points on the grey deck of the USNS Gilliland in Jacksonville Florida in 2012.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Sorry it’s Cannon Point
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There’s still a cannon on Diego Garcia from that era on the appropriately named cannon beach. It’s also where the working dogs cemetery is
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This reminds me of when I was in the US Coast Guard and worked at an aids to navigation team. I ran a boat aground in the Navesink river in New Jersey because we removed all the seasonal buoys. That wasn’t a great day.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I had a lot of cocktails and some extra money a few years ago in Seattle and I bought this. I can’t say I regret it.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Imagine being a guy (me) having to steer a car carrier past the golden ray. Food for thought
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love him, and he’s not technically an object, but it’s this fuckin guy
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I met an Australian in San Diego with a Jeff Lynne tattoo. He said I was like one of three people that knew who it was
Tattoo on forearm depicting Jeff Lynne of ELO, black ink
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I liberated an allen wrench from the coast guard in 1990 and finally found a use for it in 2012. I even commemorated the event.
Allen wrench on piece of white paper surrounded by memorabilia from my coast guard service including unit patches and ribbon bar.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Go Hawks!
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
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It was a good training opportunity for the deckhands from San Diego and the Philippines to learn how to shovel snow.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I was working on a ship in Baltimore at the time. Pretty snowy I gotta say.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Jake and Rocky
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My late wife Leana’s Ganesh tattoo. She was half Indian and quarter Ukrainian and Romanian and very beautiful. Merry Christmas
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Crows 🐦‍⬛ Egyptian and Sri Lankan
Egyptian crow Suez Canal Sri Lankan crows Colombo Sri Lanka
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Duck butt
Duck dabbling in Balboa Park San Diego
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Seagull on old ferry slip Port Townsend Washington 2004
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The duality of a car carrier
Sherman tank on flatbed inside a car carrier shipGreen 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
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Ship doors
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
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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.
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
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Ah man I love this picture I took in Fells Point Baltimore
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Me directing cranes to send containers ashore that had Johns Hopkins equipment in them. I had no idea Johns Hopkins did military contracting before this. Fells Point Baltimore
White husky guy with glasses short brown hair and a neon green high visibility vest and black clothesHusky white guy wearing a white hard hat green high visibility vest giving hand signals to crane operator White shipping container being lowered onto flatbed semi truck on narrow dock
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Brian and Dio with the USNS Gordon and USNS Gilliland behind them in Fells Point Baltimore
Two sailors Brian and Dio standing on a dock with two large gray ships behind them
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Filipino Dio behind the wheel of a Kawasaki mule white guy brian in the back seat Dio short guy in front of Brian tall guy on the deck of a gray ship in the snow. Dio the short guy is wearing ludicrously huge goggles Dio the Filipino guy in a ships passageway wearing big sunglasses
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Outside this place with this painting of a weird looking guy on the wall. Maybe it’s Jimmy?
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Going to Baltimore post for awhile. Dio calling for a cab in Dundalk
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I was thinking about working on ships in Baltimore and searched my Google Photos for video and these pretty much sum up my Baltimore experience.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Jake cutting it up on the turntables. PE in full effect! Late entry #caturday
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Tanker discourse had me looking for my pictures when I was working on the Florida Voyager, a Chevron ship. I did not like working for Chevron. I did get to see the beautiful Columbia River going to Portland, OR. Also saw the retired space shuttle over LA (ship in red box) which was pretty cool.
Bow and forward main deck of tanker ship. Main deck is painted red. Ship is on Columbia River between Washington and Oregon. Trees and coastline on the port side of shipStern of tanker on Columbia River shoreline in background Space shuttle attached to 747 jet over Southern California beach with chase aircraft. Two ships in red box indicating where I was when they flew over in 2012
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I took this picture of the Seay leaving Blount Island in Jacksonville in 2012. I think she was headed to Diego Garcia
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Indian Ocean sunset on the Pomeroy
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dropping anchor on the Pomeroy in Diego Garcia
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m not sure how I feel about the new Wendy’s slogan. MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU. #albuquerque #4th #misfortune
Wendy’s sign MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU seen on 4th St in Albuquerque
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Here she is in the Bayonne shipyard in 2017. She was there over a year. If I recall correctly she had a bent shaft then they found out the other shaft was bent after they replaced the first one.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I’m thinking of changing careers. I’m thinking I may like to scrutinize the catch and bedevil the most grizzled fisherman.
Iron chef guy scrutinizing the catch. Japanese man looking at fish.Japanese chef bedeviling grizzled fishermen about their catch.
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
EXCLUSIVE: unreleased Danzig video just dropped
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Unreleased Beastie Boys Intergalactic video just dropped
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Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I steered this 1,000’ ship into Savannah a couple times. Never got ashore after doing the should I go ashore or go to sleep math. Looked nice from the channel especially the older part of the city. Lots of people waving to us which is always nice.
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