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#1
04-03-2005, 08:24 PM
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| What is... What is a motor launch? Sorry for the sort of idiotic question.
__________________ Signed- mackid068 _________ Sailing (n.) The art of getting wet and going nowhere slowly at great expense (it's fun though) =/\= A sailing Trekkie!=/\=  |
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#2
04-03-2005, 11:01 PM
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| Many years ago, when the English were the final arbitrators of "a gentleman's pastime": Under 50' was considered a "launch"; 50' to 90' was considered a "pinnace"; Over 90' was a "yacht". But those days, sadly or not, are no more. Today a 30' x 15' plastic milk jug is a yacht.  Ron Fossum |
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#3
04-04-2005, 06:28 AM
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| Ordinarily a Launch is used to take folks to the "real " boat. Think "dink" , but scaled up to fit the mother ship. I have a Navy 50 "launch" that was used to carry 150 enlisted on shore leave from a carrier. Most Passenger Cruise boats use life boats as "launches" to get their folks to the shore . FAST FRED |
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#4
04-04-2005, 03:17 PM
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| At one point the United States Navy called any vessel UNDER three hundred feet a "boat." Over three hundred feet and it was defined as a "ship." Hence the reason a 175' fast torpedo attack vessel, and submarines (generally only a few feet over the 300' length until after WWII) bore the moniker "Torpedo Boat" and "Submarine Boat". |
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#5
04-04-2005, 03:21 PM
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| Ok, so a launch is more like a tender.
__________________ Signed- mackid068 _________ Sailing (n.) The art of getting wet and going nowhere slowly at great expense (it's fun though) =/\= A sailing Trekkie!=/\= |
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