Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 18hI 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 110
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Me, 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. 141
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I got to watch him eat a burger at a Seattle Sounders game 101
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Annie vs the turkeys at puget sound goat rescue. Annie had never defeated the turkeys 011
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Full moon with cranes on the USNS Gilliland. Jacksonville 2012. Top 10 favorite picture I’ve taken. 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 02/07/2026There’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 130
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This 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. 2662
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I 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. 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Imagine being a guy (me) having to steer a car carrier past the golden ray. Food for thought 020
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I love him, and he’s not technically an object, but it’s this fuckin guy 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I 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 030
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I liberated an allen wrench from the coast guard in 1990 and finally found a use for it in 2012. I even commemorated the event. 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It was a good training opportunity for the deckhands from San Diego and the Philippines to learn how to shovel snow. 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I was working on a ship in Baltimore at the time. Pretty snowy I gotta say. 110
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 30/12/2025They’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 020
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025My late wife Leana’s Ganesh tattoo. She was half Indian and quarter Ukrainian and Romanian and very beautiful. Merry Christmas 140
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Seagull on old ferry slip Port Townsend Washington 2004 000
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Worked 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. 020
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Ah man I love this picture I took in Fells Point Baltimore 120
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Me 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 000
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Brian and Dio with the USNS Gordon and USNS Gilliland behind them in Fells Point Baltimore 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Outside this place with this painting of a weird looking guy on the wall. Maybe it’s Jimmy? 000
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Going to Baltimore post for awhile. Dio calling for a cab in Dundalk 100
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025I was thinking about working on ships in Baltimore and searched my Google Photos for video and these pretty much sum up my Baltimore experience. 100
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Jake cutting it up on the turntables. PE in full effect! Late entry #caturday 030
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Tanker 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. 000
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I took this picture of the Seay leaving Blount Island in Jacksonville in 2012. I think she was headed to Diego Garcia 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I’m not sure how I feel about the new Wendy’s slogan. MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU. #albuquerque #4th #misfortune 011
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Here 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. 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 06/09/2025I’m thinking of changing careers. I’m thinking I may like to scrutinize the catch and bedevil the most grizzled fisherman. 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Unreleased Beastie Boys Intergalactic video just dropped 010
Ken Johns ⚓️ @deckape.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I 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. 1142