Boats
Boats, in this case bigada boats. Where's our carriers. They don't wear a red and white striped shirt to pick they out of the vast ocean.
Wherever trouble is, we'll be there! ...in about two weeks
No carriers in/around the sandbox?:eyebrow:
The Navy promised one will be there soon... with a wistful postscript of, if we only had a dozen more of these 10 Billion dollar boats.
Our first carrier the USS Langley, a 13,000 ton converted battleship in 1927, which was it's 7th year in service. Notice the lack of super structure above deck and the lack of side walls on the hangar deck.
Our second carrier, the USS Lexington built in 1927, had the Conning Tower superstructure typical of carriers ever since. But armored hanger deck walls and steel flight decks didn't come until WW II.
The Langley was a collier.
Bruce's comment got me looking for pictures of the hangars in modern carriers. And I came upon this one. Does anyone know what the different colored shirts mean in
this photo of an "all hands" meeting in a hangar 3 years ago? You've got purple, green, red, blue, and camo.
Hi Res picture here.
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The different colors represent different jobs on the flight deck.
Purple Fuel
Red Ordinance
Green Catapults and Arresting Gear
I Think
The Langley was a collier.
Right, my bad. The 2nd and 3rd carriers, Lexington and Saratoga, were built on battle cruiser hulls. :thumbsup:
The different colors represent different jobs on the flight deck.
Purple Fuel
Red Ordinance
Green Catapults and Arresting Gear
I Think
If that ain't correct it's damn close.
I think the AirBoss wears yellow. Maybe.
ETA: Very good explainer
here.From that link not everyone with the same color shirt has the same duties or area of responsibility, like I figured they would. The colors seem to separate by authority and areas of expertise. The yellow shirt yells, hey blue shirt get away from the bombs and fuel. :haha:
I guess a Jet-Ski is a boat. :D
Testing ability of aircraft against ships, with the new 2,000lb bombs.
If you own a boat you should have a garage for it. ;)
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I wonder how they Planned to cool the motor over the road? Or how the boat controls would hook to the car systems like steering and brakes. Designers like Stevens fan the flames of desire, then dumps reality on the engineers... and yes, the bean counters.
Too many moving parts. 'Tis not boatswains mate proof.
What do you do with the car part at the boat ramp once the boat's been launched? Presumably taking with it the "over the road" (and up the ramp and into the parking lot) power plant (but leaving the winch...)?
Boat ramp? This ain't no city slicker toy, this is to go where no man has built a ramp before, where men are men and ramps are vacant. You have to see the Big Picture, otherwise you can't fit all the advertising copy in.
She looks like the
Royal Clipper.
Here's her insides.
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All that opulence just a tiny hole away from being the fanciest submarine in the ocean. :eek:
Holy shit, 56,000 square feet of sail.
Speaking of submarines, this is close...
How much money did we sink into killing Castro? Now he's playing 2nd base for the Yankees.
They say it's small and "quiet." I wonder what it used for propulsion. With a range of 110 miles, I'd assume a gasoline or diesel engine. And I don't think of either of those as being "quiet."
According to
this PDF, it was gasoline powered and was very dangerous because the fumes would settle in the bottom of the boat.
During one test, a single crew-man was in SKIFF, standing in the open deck hatch. Unbeknownst to all present, a fuel leak had occurred and fumes had gathered, but the crewman had neglected to turn valve #15. With the flip of a switch, the ignition of the engine, or some other spark-generating event, the fumes ignited. Due to the vessel’s small size, there was little space for the explosion to expand—except for the open deck hatch. Thus, as powder ignited deep in the breech of a cannon that expands dramatically through the barrel, the force in the small SKIFF sought the open hatch—and, as with a cannon, there was a moveable obstruction: the crewman, who was shot through the air. He went straight up, like a missile from a submarine, and eventually landed in the water nearby. Remarkably, he was plucked from the water unharmed, except that he had lost all his body hair. As Smith described the scene, other than his swim trunks, he was “nude as a sausage.” Smith also noted how fortunate it was that he had been standing straight up and well centered in the opening, which was exactly the same width as his shoulders; if he had been lower, perhaps with one shoulder under one side of the opening, he “would have left more than his hair in the hatch.”
...I don't think of either of those as being "quiet."
That's probably 1950s 'quiet'. As in 'quiet to the ear'. It would probably be noticed from waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off by a modern sub's listening equipment.
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Gondolas are for tourists and wimps.
But the flimsy little wires on the rudders don't look too safe. :eyebrow:
We wanted no part of the war in Europe, but after a U-Boat sunk the Lusitania president Wilson told Germany knock it off, no more passenger ships or we'd come over there. Germany complied until the Russians collapsed, then the Germans said you're not the boss of me, figuring the could beat England and the U-Boats would keep the US from coming to the fight. That's why this U-Boat was in NY.
In the interest of full disclosure, Wilson did want a war and the Lusitania was carrying munitions.
Yes Wilson did, but 70% of the country did not. Strange as it may seem, back then the peoples wishes were honored by politicians.
Killing 1100 civilians is not justified over a few bullets... ok, 170 tons of bullets.
Looks like US industrial centers about the same time... and China now.
Kind of boatish so I'll sick it here, although it could go in WTF as well.
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The buoy would have an observation area from which our unlucky guardian would scan the seas; once a ship was spotted, the buoy would submerge to periscope depth, and after some time the nationality of the ship would be identified; at that point if an enemy ship is recognized the operator could submerge the buoy further (being anchored to the sea floor) via a winch to 50 or 60 feet beneath the surface, and then when the mine made contact (proximity or otherwise?) the buoy operator could detonate the mine. It was thought in this way that you could mine an area of sea and not have to worry about ships being damaged by friendly fire. The whole thing seems highly problematic to me--not the least of which would probably be a very jostling ride to the buoy operator.
As far as desirability of that post, it's right up there with Kamikaze Pilot, and bomb vest carrier. :rolleyes:
...and bomb vest carrier.
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That's cool, you can have your little dinghy transported to safer waters, and not risk ocean travel. They must have divers setting up some kind of cribbing to cradle the boats when the water's pumped out. Something to keep them from moving in rough weather.
They must have divers setting up some kind of cribbing to cradle the boats when the water's pumped out. Something to keep them from moving in rough weather.
I think they use cases of freshly picked prunes.
:headshake That would make them too salty.
Smooth seas do not make strong sailors.
6 days do not a week make.
Four funnel ships look easy to roll over.
Vincent boats? Not only your boat, but your little lawnmower too. Muhahahaha.
It's too bad we're losing her. You could spend an overnight on her, and while I never did, our Boy Scout troop spent one or two nights on board over the years.
That would've been cool, especially for a kid.
I thought they were just renaming it the USS Barack.
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Chinese Freightliner Shinyo Sawako trying to get hooked up to a large salvage tug boat. This photo was taken shortly after Shinyo Sawako collided with a fishing boat Lurong Yu 2177 (that sank immediately upon collision and only two survived from its crew of 18 members). Reasons for the collision are unknown.
For the boats, cleaning the Grand Canal. Bet that smells wonderful. :greenface
Everybody gets a yacht...
In days of old when a sailor was keelhauled, he would be tied to ropes going under the ship and dragged from one side to the other. Fast enough so he might be able to hold his breath, but they dragged him across those barnacles, squirts, and mussels. :thepain:
But hey, no worries. :rolleyes:
At 790 ft long, with an 88 ft beam and 32,000 GRT, she was the biggest ship in the world for 5 years.
Compared to today's 1188 ft long, 217 ft beam, 227,000 ton monsters, that's tiny.
When you absolutely, positively, want to get there quickly...
but absolutely, positively, don't have to get there.
When you absolutely, positively, want to get there quickly...
but absolutely, positively, don't have to get there alive.
Fixed it.
Nobody does houseboats like San Francisco.
The USS Kitty Hawk strutting around with some deadbeat she picked up, you know how those Navy people are. ;)
accidentally caught boat fever again. I've been looking at plans for small sailing dinghies. First, it began with plywood tack and tape boats then quickly escalated to clinker/lapstrake planked skiffs and sailing dories.
Leading me down the rabbit hole to the Mystic Seaport Wooden Boat show in June/July,
FML
Mystic is fantastic. When you're done can you sell it for big bucks?
I looked out the window at my sad wooden kayak in the back yard today and momentarily fantasized about ordering some epoxy and sanding it down when the weather gets warmer.
Or, put some stamps on it and send to Kentucky. I don't boat much, but, I would put your kayak on top of GC1 and carry it everywhere I went.
Come to think of it, GC1 could prolly use a coat of epoxy.
This reminds me..
I owe footfootfoot, glatt, and my other maker brothers a boat thread.
This reminds me..
I owe footfootfoot, glatt, and my other maker brothers a boat thread.
Yeah, it's only been a
DECADE.We have a boat thread, do you mean a build thread?
**SIGH**
HE MEANS THE THREAD
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Pretty good memory, eh?
oh, yeah, yours too.
Don't sigh at me. :p:
If you want to post pictures of a watercraft we have threads for boats and for ships.
If you want to reminisce about things you accomplish before the great decline, then you'll have to find it in the Cellar attic. Sexobon is great at digging up that stuff.
If someone is inspired by the old farts reminiscing about shit they once did, then a build thread like glatt's bandsaw build thread would be most welcome.
I was just giving you good natured grief V.
It's all good.
Somebody needs to step up and start the next bigasscellarbuild!
Do we have a build a wall thread?
Why hasn't Jim taken a Trump handle and started posting with it?
What the hell is wrong with you guys? Old farts!
We young-in's have expectations, ya know.
Here is the boat that has captured my attention, I may build a 1:6 model of it this summer. It's 12' 4-1/2" between perps.
And a sailing club in WA that is currently building one - with pictures!
https://oarlockandsail.com/2016/10/31/progress-on-the-buttonswan-and-our-new-boat/
Just feed that drawing into your buddy's CNC machine and say embiggen. :lol:
C'mon Foots, you shown repeatedly you've got the skills, it's just a matter of time and money, and you can show those west coasters how to do it right. :cheerldr:
Time and money are at odds with each other at the moment, but maybe not for long...
Awesomeness.
Apologies for the Facefuck linkage, YouTube don't know nothing 'bout this.
Wow, that's nuts. Moving the cabin fore and aft and the boat stays level. :thumb:
Super cool. I'd say it's from
Munson Boats, they're local.
The moving cabin is amazing, but far more utilitarian is that second boat that can carry a pickup truck. way cool!
I liked how ya could put the controls (the dash, if you will) pretty much any damn place on the boat.
The old flying car promise redux.
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To hell with not being able to swim well, that is why I would not get in one of those jet-boats-on-white-water-situations.
Maybe it's from watching far too many SFX movie explosion crashes explosions crash crash boom, but that wasn't even as shocking as licking a 9 volt battery.
Plus, they seem like douches.
otherwise, two thumbs up!
I thought they were done after that first big bump, but the boat apparently said "Mmm, I like rocks! MOAR!"
Yes. It looked like it was just being blown by the wind. I would have liked it better if they titled it "Speed boat in river bashes into rocks and capsizes. What happened next blew my mind"
No, fuck you very much:
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My fav was the guy what took a kayak to the chin.
Better bigger.
Did we see anyone die in that video? Some of those looked like they might have died.
Fuck no, indeed.
Definitely some guys very close to being in trouble.
I prefer to think no one died in that vid.
I think I did see a guy die yesterday though, come to think of it.
LiveLeak has/had a surveillance-type vid of some poor guy that got caught some how in a large spool being wound with wire/cable. Dude got spun over by that spool over and over. I realized that there was just no way he was gonna survive and turned it off.
I don't necessarily need to see that.
I saw one too, guy on motorcycle broadsides a truck right in the saddle tank. Tank explodes and the dude is enveloped in flame.
I saw one too, guy on motorcycle broadsides a truck right in the saddle tank. Tank explodes and the dude is enveloped in flame.
Guy was definitely hurt but appeared to survive that if you catch the extended version.
WARNING: There are no boats in this video.
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That's weird, the picture after the fire was put out shows the saddle tank intact. It's hard to believe all that fire came from the bike. :confused:
Maybe the biker broke a fuel line coming from the tank?
Usually the fuel line goes into or over the frame but it's China so who knows.
Looking at the tank with your K trick, the front lower corner of the tank may have been damaged.
The bike's tank ruptures, spraying fuel. A spark from steel on steel, or the truck's spark plug wire arcing, sets off atomized fuel.
Whoosh.
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The flame front is a fair way away from the saddle tank.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I like your story.
That fire is way under the truck. At first I thought that whatever the biker was carrying in his "lap" is what spilled and caught fire, but our view is too obstructed to be sure.
Thanks for pointing out that YouTube trick, pause/<,> to advance/rewind frame-by-frame. That's gonna be handy.
I think that was one of those things I've 'become unaware of'.:)
Row row row your boat, but don't follow these fools...
Or if rowing ain't your thing...
It sure does look badass. But I am skeptical about the 180 mph top speed. Maybe it's a drag boat and cuts a hole in the water too fast to fall in. But I'd think that a v-hull, even a catamaran double v would be beat to shit and back at 180 mph over a stretch of water big enough to get going that fast. A hydrofoil? Ok. V-hull? and not steel strong enough to withstand being pounded by the wave? Carbon fiber is light, but not know for its toughness.
I'd be interested to hear more, or, hey, let's see it in action!
eta: aha...
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A Los Angeles-class sub at periscope depth. Pic taken from a P-3 Orion, perhaps fittingly, a sub-hunter.
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Is it just me, or, does something appear to be...emanating out from the airplane's shadow?:eyebrow:
That's just the shadow of the depth charge being released. BOOM!
Just kidding that's part of the plane.
That's just the shadow of the depth charge being released. BOOM!
Just kidding that's part of the plane.
I meant that I see something akin to semi-visible
rays (for lack of a better word) of some sort emanating 360 degrees from the plane. Not the tail-boom-lookin-thingy.
OK the darker blue lines? Probably the texture of the water surface.
I thought maybe I was finally having a flashback.:jig:
Well it has an outboard motor, what appears to be MS boat numbers, and was in Boston Harbor photographing the tall ships... must be boat.
Steering wheel is not on the correct side...
...but, on a boat it is.
Now, for the argument:
Is it a boattruck, or is it a truckboat?
Wait.
No windshield, or A-pillars.
I think Bruce may be right.
That's a boat.
That's not a boat, now this is a boat, which I saw on the day/place that dude drove into the water.
Shot from Castle Island, Boston.
You were on Castle Island for Sail Boston and that's all you show us? Don't bogart them pics, Sir. :eyebrow:
OOOOO... sorry bou that.
Spain shows up with a galleon built in Florda.
and Canada brings the beloved Blue nose.
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My FiL spent a couple years balsa modeling this beauty. The Pride of Baltimore.
Thank you, thank you, great pictures.
I wonder what that perch is about, and why it has so much rigging. The only thing I could think of is, being built in Florida, with that perch high and out front, maybe it's for a spotter, watching out for shallow water and reefs? Maybe if it was powered, but under sail I don't think the ship can respond that fast?
I think you've got it. It'd be a good place to watch for obstructions. I just saw an article which said El Galleon was built in Spain.
Floating masses of algae are becoming a big problem is some ports, so the French have built a boat to fight it.
What a rig...
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Very cool, now get the fuck off the ramp.
Dumbass. There's no way that was cheaper, nor better, than an actual boat.
No, but it got him a chick willing to handle his lines. ;)
Looks like the
USS OKC is
open for bidness.
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Nice the numbered the hatches so they remember where the left the Cruise Missiles. :facepalm:
Looks like the inner round part of the door is water tight and the outer door leaks like a sieve.
Is that ^^^a submarine?
'Tis. The USS Oklahoma City.
Akula-class on the left, Typhoon-class on the right:
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That's no boat, this is a boat. :haha:
Several years ago when my son was a Lieutenant in the navy I was invited to go on a Tiger Cruise. That is a cruise where parents or others close to the sailor can come and stay on board for several days while the ship or sub moves between ports. However subs seldom offer these as they usually have nuclear weapons on board.
In this case my son's submarine, the SSBN Nevada had been completely overhauled and updated. It was in drydock for over a year and then after initial sea trials was sent from it's home base in Bremerton, Washington to San Diego where it successfully conducted a missile test, firing an unarmed Trident to a target near Hawaii.
I met up with other men (only men at this point were allowed on subs) and we boarded the sub in San Diego and didn't resurface for 5 days when we popped up at the mouth of Puget Sound at the US?Canada border.
Since this was the largest class of subs it wasn't as uncomfortable as smaller attack subs. Luckily I got a lower bunk, don't think I could have hopped up into the upper bunks. They had learning events for us and we got to see our kids manning their posts. I especially liked hanging out in the sonar room where they listened to the area around the sub, reminded me of The Hunt For Red October. The other cool thing was that since there were no nuclear weapons on board we were pretty much allowed to go anywhere other than the radio room or the room where they controls the nuclear propulsion system. I liked to hang out on the upper deck near the missile silos, it was quiet and a good place to nap or read a book.
Some people went nuts with war surplus materials...
[strike]Questionable[/strike] alternate history...
Ya seen that fish with the teeth? Ifn ya do tell him I'm lookin fer him.
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I would not want to be in that boat w/50 ppl.
Strange rig, water or ice.
“Nat Roe has been granted a patent for an ice and water boat.” Source: The Suffolk County news., August 09, 1907, Page 2. From this, I found the July 7, 1907 U.S. Patent Number 859,693 which states in part the following.
“I have produced a motor propelled ice yacht or scooter adapted to skim over ice and plunge into and across water spaces and air-holes with scarcely diminished speed. As an ice motor yacht it is safety controlled under high speed and affords a lively recreation to pleasure seekers and in the event of it plunging into the water in soft ice or open water leads, it would float the same as a boat and could be gotten out by means of ice hooks used to lift its runners on the ice. ”
Nathaniel Roe (1876 – 1957) owned a steel tape factory in Patchogue, and he had over 70 patents to his name at the time of his death. Steel tape refers to what we call tape measures today. He lived in Patchogue, New York his whole life.
His obituary stated in part the following. “Shortly after the turn of the century the noted inventor designed an ice boat and later set a new speed record of more than 100 miles per hour. This was considered to be the fastest speed ever attained by man up until that date.” … “Mr. Roe was the owner of one of the first cars in this area and also was a prominent figure in bicycle racing circles.” Source: The Patchogue advance., January 17, 1957, Page 7
The patent can be easily viewed on the Google patent website by searching for” nathaniel roe Ice and water boat” in the search box.
I do not believe the boat in the photo above is the one used for the speed record. A much sleeker boat with a bigger engine in shown in the February 10, 1912 issue of Forest and Stream magazine which states the following regarding this boat. “The motor scooter, built by Nat Roe for service on Great South Bay, has made 90 miles an hour, gone over 100 feet of open water and coasted over a mile after power was shut off. She is 20 feet long, 4 feet wide, driven by a 35-horsepower Fiat motor. She is propelled by a spiked wheel fitted in the centerboard trunk.” There is a photo of this boat with the article.
An ad in The New York Dramatic Mirror from April 9, 1910, Page 19, lists a film entitled “Ice Skaters on Lake Ronkonkoma.” The description is, “A series of most exciting pictures of the fastest boat on earth, jumping water holes in the ice at the rate of eighty-five miles per hour. Nat Roe’s motor ice boat, capable of running 120 miles an hour.”
Scientific American went so far to say that the boat could be driven home over snow covered roads in the February 12, 1910 issue.
Methinks there's a lot of hyperbole if not bullshit there. :eyebrow:
I can't tell if that's part of the trailer in the last picture or a steering skate for the boat.
It doesn't look like the runners are steerable since they're flush against the hull. That could be a rear steering combination rudder and skate.
That spiked paddle wheel thing looks like it would splash freezing water all over the pleasure seeker.
Um, is the spike wheel between his legs?
No Jim, he sits further back, watch out for sudden stops though. ;)
This dude obviously has money, I wonder how he got it?
Oh, I know, he's a pirate. :smack:
Gonna need a bigger boat...
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Take all your vehicles on the water...
Don't forget to tie your boat down... :facepalm:
Look at that foeshortening.
In the top picture, the truck is one car length from the stop line.
On the bottom, it looks like it's stopped at the stop line.
Photos lie all the time depending on the angle they are taken from. Makes me wonder how refs at football games can judge field position with any accuracy?
Or are those different trucks? Boats look the same.
Same accident taken by three different people, I just grabbed two of the pictures.
Or are those different trucks? Boats look the same.
I think they have moved the boat some in the top pic trying not to damage the hull.
Same wreck, different times. In the top picture the Boat's been stabilized with poles and the truck has been backed out some.
Stabilized with poles, but I don't believe the truck has been moved.
Me either. That truck is in the same spot. You can tell from the relationship between the roof of the truck and the stern of the boat.
It's a combination of a telephoto being used to take the bottom picture which compresses everything, and the angle it was shot at.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
"Got one."
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I wonder what it cost to bring the Cole home?
Ah, found it. $4.5 million for the ride home and $250 million to repair.
This Ferry started in San Francisco, had an accident killing five, then a fire at the dock. Next it was rebuilt for Seattle and served up into I think the 70s. First one arc welded together, copper wheel house to not screw up the compass, and other neat stuff.
Nope. Ain't getting on a ferry.:headshake
Ferry not Fairy. What are you some kind of ridge runner or something?
The people poking up out of the port hole things, like little planters, make me LOL.
Nope. Ain't getting on a ferry.:headshake
Ferry not Fairy. What are you some kind of ridge runner or something?
I'll get on a fairy, before I get on a ferry.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Nope. Ain't getting on a ferry.:headshake
You are going to miss a lot when you come visit with that attitude mister
This Ferry started in San Francisco, had an accident killing five, then a fire at the dock. Next it was rebuilt for Seattle and served up into I think the 70s. First one arc welded together, copper wheel house to not screw up the compass, and other neat stuff.
I've kayaked right up to the hull of the Kalakala, touched it just to say I had. Who knew today was that day.
Soon after that she was towed away from Lake Union near Ivar's on the lake. It had a little plastic tip jar for donations hanging on a line from the bow.
You are going to miss a lot when you come visit with that attitude mister
I won't miss drowning in a ferry tipover.
I keep looking for evidence that the Table Rock Lake duckboat actually capsized rather than sinking upright.
Maybe a photograph of its upside down hull will surface, so to speak.
The word seems to be used
much less frequently during the investigation than it was during the initial press reporting.
Thanks, Griff, for bringing it up, so to speak.
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(Bob Ross on bass) ;)
Dammit! I'm so gullible I watched the whole video trying to confirm it was Bob Ross. Turns out it's actually Jim Morrison.
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Heh...I thought he looked kinda like Keith Whitley.
Hurricane force winds, full load, buttoned up roof and sides, easy to see why it went down.
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Eighty Japanese midget submarines in dry dock at Kure, Japan.
Those damn things showed up everywhere, Pearl Harbor, Attu and Kiska, China. Instead of starting a war they should have sold those things to Escobar, El Chapo, and El Mayo. :haha:
And I thought Glatt's home-built wooden kayak was awesome:
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Do a beer roll in that!
Pretty cool!
Imagine how awkward it is for him to get in and out with nothing on the deck to put his weight on to steady himself.
This has to be the shortest tugboat going, it works down around Chesapeake Bay. The only thing I could find on the web was a couple pictures and it's current position/speed. I'd love to know the horsepower and draft.
My buddy took the first picture and the second came from the web.
That self propelled bobber is pretty cool.
Someone sent me some specs but no horsepower rating.
Year 2012, length 25.5 ft (7.8m), depth 6 ft (1.8m) width 16 ft (4.9m), Gross tonnage 16, net tonnage 13.
In the background behind the green sign is a WW II concrete ship.
Got the horsepower on this one...
Roger Stone?!?!? @6:03???
W. T. F.
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LUST!
That's not a boat, that's one of the prettiest cars ever built.
1963, a buddy of my class president pulls up for a party. Black XKE with the top up. out rolls a 5'7" 300 lb guy in ski pants and sweater, followed by TWO women of playmate quality. A vivid illustration of the power of money. Good grief.
I've owned two Jaguars over fifty years, Leno has a roomful.
So how many "playmates" have you attracted with the Jags? :haha:
Go fast Howard Hughes style...
Okay, there is a power boat I approve of.
Heeeere's Boaty [/Ed McMahon]
Three deck barges delivering new cars up and down major rivers. The first company doing this was started in 1915, and these Fords in the picture are early 1950's.
Do you suppose they hired local young people to drive them?
A great job, if so.
When I first saw photos of these auto barges, I thought of The Golden Ray which half-capsized some months back and has disappeared from the news if you don't live in coastal Georgia.
It carried thousands of vehicles and the plan to right the ship has been abandoned.
What will happen is probably similar to the dismantling of the Tricolor in the English Channel five years ago. It was an auto carrier of about the same size, also tipped halfway over on its port side in just a little bit deeper water.
If you have a spare half-hour or so, this video is a simply astounding account of the operation. Saws and pulleys, imagination and guts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENOJBLVgjwThat was amazing, the pictures of the cut section showed all those cars cross sectioned at different points of the cars.
Wearing out one hull at a time...
Boats for most people are toys unlike pro fishermen and such.
Since they are usually Dad's toy many of the names a basically Dad Jokes.
Over 5000 yachts registered under “Carpe Diem,” sometimes translated as Seas the Day. :facepalm:
That gave me pause also, but I suppose it could have been sold or stolen, or maybe his ex-wife owns it. I got a kick out of Wood Too and Wood Not.
Larry Ellison spent $10 million on this boat...
I think he stole the design from the Klingons:
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If you have enough water everything in mobile.
I'd seen a lot of footage of the water coming in but very little of it going out again.
Imagine sitting in you porta-potty sized ice fishing shack and peek out the window to this...
Good time to already be on the toilet.
Cuz first you're gonna say it, and then you're gonna do it.
Imagine seeing that thing drifting at ya outta the fog.
Somebody had money to burn...
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The Golden Sahara is a show car Barris built for Jim Skonzakes in Ohio.
Boat people, how much does 990 feet of that chain weigh?
About a fuckton/foot, given the apparent scale of the picture. Wow.
I saw the chain on the USS Hornet carrier in Alameda a few years ago; best part of the tour.
This is the Ford, brand new; 136# links are "light weight technology":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W52Cx55aLk
And a nice rope, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEt2REyWGvcI looked at another anchoring video which had some interesting comments.
[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]What if anchor stuck in seabed .[/COLOR]
If the anchor stuck in the sea bed and the ship is not able to draw it out, usually the chain is cut and a buoy marker is left attached to the other half of the chain which will go with the anchor so that it can be retrieved later.
[COLOR="royalblue"]I was a 3rd Mate back in the 80's and we all got told it is the weight of the WHOLE CHAIN that holds the ship from dragging , the anchor simply holds the chain in place.[/COLOR]
That's correct
[COLOR="royalblue"]2 questions though... How much cable to be paid out for it to hold and how one will know that its actually holding but not drifting?[/COLOR]
The anchor chain length will depend on the depth of anchoring point. The thumb rule is "Scope of 6" i.e. if the depth is 25 m, the anchor cable to be paid out 150m. The Ship should move in a fixed diameter and that should not change....however, in case of wind, there can be a small drag.
[COLOR="royalblue"]How do you de-anchor to release ship to run ? Or how do you release the ship from the seabed taking off the anchor?[/COLOR]
The windlass or anchor winch is used to wind up the chain and lift the anchor. If the anchor is stuck, the ship is moved aft and ahead to release the anchor (which is unlikely as ships are anchored in dedicated anchor stations where such problems do not occur).
Aha, so that's why they need near 1,000 ft of chain. :idea:
Three years ago, I was on a small motor boat that anchored off the Florida Keys. The anchor got wedged under the lip of a large rock and moving around didn't release it. We could see it, since the water was only 15 feet deep or so. And so one of the guys dove down to release it.
Come think of it, we slept in that morning and got the boat captain nobody else wanted. He wasn't very good at putting the boat where he wanted it.
When a boat don't boat no mo...
This one just sold for $77,000 which is not outrageous for the size...
A retracting top and roll up (figure of speech, actually electric) windows is unique...
1400 hours! Is that a typo? That's almost 9 months working full time. It better sell for $77k when that much time was spent just on the dashboard.
No it's not a typo. He wanted a perfect fit and it became an obsession. He put it together and took it apart dozens of times.
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