Deckhand Leader

Duties: Help Signal boat operators or winchman concerning directions, operating capstans, small electric cranes and listances when vision is obscured. Use capstans, winches, ratchets, and other deck equipment as required in accomplishing work. Operate capstans or winches in loading, setting, pulling and resetting of buoys and weights, buoys and weights to be set or moved by attaching hooks and/or serving cables. Operate outboard motor boats in picking up loose buoys from sand bars. Connect, disconnect, repair and replace dredge lines, makes alignment sighting of dredge cut, and makes soundings with lead lines.