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Post by RetNavySuppo on Aug 11, 2004 17:55:41 GMT -7
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Post by stetto on Aug 12, 2004 3:07:08 GMT -7
How absolutely cool....I just need 499,960 more dollars and it could be mine!!!...How deep does she draw though? Most of the waters I patrol average about 15-25 feet...  |
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Post by Britbrat on Aug 12, 2004 4:37:49 GMT -7
A great support vessel at a float-fly! ;D
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Post by jetmex on Aug 12, 2004 9:34:13 GMT -7
I wonder how many water skiers you could haul behind her?
There was a PT boat under restoration next to the battleship USS Texas for quite a while, but I haven't seen it recently.
Hey Stetto, see if you can find a surplus PBR, they draw something ridiculously low, like 9 or 10 inches....... Damn, you could cruise the swamps out here with one of those!
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Post by Grnbrt on Aug 12, 2004 15:00:42 GMT -7
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Post by stetto on Aug 15, 2004 4:49:35 GMT -7
Hey Stetto, see if you can find a surplus PBR, they draw something ridiculously low, like 9 or 10 inches....... Damn, you could cruise the swamps out here with one of those! Yeah Jaime, I saw a "Modern Marvels" episode on the History Channel about WWII landing craft (the Higgins boat) last week--amazing lil' wooden boats!! There are supposedly NONE surviving, but an exact replica exists--A Louisiana swamp boat builder designed them for the military, and was scoffed at till the Marines got a look at one. If I were to have one, it would need to be fitted with bass seats. ;D |
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Post by Galvin on Aug 15, 2004 6:55:41 GMT -7
I have had a secret hankering for the 80' Elco version of the PT boat a la PT-109 ever since I worked for Revell and we marketed a model of it. Kennedy's boat later had a home brewed mount for a (relatively) light weight aircraft type Oldsmobile 37MM cannon on the bow and that would be a definite must-have as well. The U.S. Navy's PT boat crews were probably as keen as the Japanese to see P-39s wrecked because the Olds cannon was an ideal weapon for blowing up barges and shore installations and the only way to get them was from wrecked aircraft.
As far as being a boat for the man who has everything, that is probably a very good minimum requirement... as long as "everything" includes an oil well. With three Packard V-12s it goes through an amazing amount of fuel when the throttle is to the wall in and all three are running in attack mode. Cruising was usually done on one or two of the engines but who wants to go slow?
John Wayne for years had a PT boat that had been converted into a yacht and there were several other conversions floating around as well. Not too many seem to have to survived in the original or even the yacht versions because, after all, they were plywood boats and designed for a service life of months, not years. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this one had actually survived to the present day.
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Post by buckwill on Aug 15, 2004 10:56:33 GMT -7
in 79 whenn i left memphois,, thereeee were tow or three set up on oill drums on mud island just under the bridddge, alongsidee the old mud island airport,, buck
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Post by Wagon1 on Aug 18, 2004 15:55:51 GMT -7
What....no rod holders?
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Post by RetNavySuppo on Aug 18, 2004 17:49:27 GMT -7
Hey, if you carry depth charges (homemade, of course), you won't need any stink'in rod holders.  |
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Post by Grnbrt on Aug 19, 2004 21:17:57 GMT -7
Well Galvin funny you should mention the boat John Wayne. I was at my flying buddies place on Camano Island today for a BBQ and he mentioned this while we were sitting on his deck. He use to own a 42' boat and was up in the islands when John Waynes boat came in and he and his wife grabbed the ropes for it and Mr Wayne himself thanked him and gave both of them a tour. He could only say it was fabulous and that after he died it was taken back to Newport where they sold it and the new owner made it into a bed and breakfast and the last he heard it was in real bad shape, pity!
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Post by Wayne on Aug 19, 2004 23:00:19 GMT -7
I heard that it was a converted mine sweeper that he had......
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Post by Galvin on Aug 21, 2004 6:42:25 GMT -7
Wayne, you might be right because I never saw a pucture of it and a PT boat sounds a bit small for the kind of floating fornicatrium John Wayne was capable of owning. Mine sweepers were wood also, the better to avoid setting off magnetic mines. Cousteau's original "Calypso" was a converted mine sweeper and more the size I would envision for John Wayne's boat.
When I worked at the Santa Ana airport I had one of his sons by his last wife, the one from Peru or something, in class. He was an ultralight pilot and, try as I might, I couldn't convince him to try flying something less dangerous.
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Post by Wayne on Aug 21, 2004 10:18:08 GMT -7
I never saw it either..it was just something I heard...He and Bing Crosby used to go up to Campbell River fishing every summer - back when there used to be fish there........
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Post by jetmex on Aug 21, 2004 10:43:40 GMT -7
There is a Higgins boat in the D-Day Museum in New Orleans, though I'm not sure if it's original or a reproduction. They were manufactured and tested near that city, and the museum provides a very detailed history on Mr Higgins and his boats. It's well worth the visit if you're in that neck of the woods, and Emeril Lagasse's restaurant is right down the street if you're hungry afterwards! ;D
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Post by stetto on Aug 21, 2004 11:37:59 GMT -7
Jaime, that's a replica, as all the original Higgins boats were made of wood (except the door) and were left to the elements---From what they said none survived. That boat was built to exact specs and from the original Higgins plans. It is the real thing, just not from the WWII era...
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