I just googled it too...the BC cat was on the side of the finger pier where there is a frigate now.
I was surprised to encounter the dilapidated remains of one, lying alongside the quay at the Egyptian Abu Qir naval base a few years ago. A sad...
I've owned a Marinette aluminum cruiser for many years. Marinette specifies a special alloy of aluminum for hull protection, that they sell in...
Increased the forward buoyancy - and restoring pitch moment. Probably after discovering that "wave piercing" is an artist's concept and not a NA...
The hydraulic power required to achieve something like that would be massive.
One of our SES ferries operating in the Med was nicknamed "Hoover" While maneuvering in to the quay she sucked up a tire. Took four of us all...
We might be about the same age. Your post prompted me to pull the largest of my three slide rules out of the bottom desk drawer and reflect on...
Let's just say she's been "resting" for a while. GD has an entirely different mission set in mind for her....
We've delivered quite a few interceptor systems since the late 1990s, for trim/list control as well as for active pitch/roll stabilization. Our...
Not your everyday craft...but I can confirm it does have comfy crew seating. Baeckmo will recognize it and so will Ad Hoc......;-) Meet the...
Allan Vaitses' excellent book on lofting includes a chapter on "Taking Off Lines".
He also relied heavily on his extensive research and his connections with other researchers. The list of the latter is quite long.
My old '68 Woodson still runs like a top..the 70HP on it is an '88.
Most recent was on a 1980s vintage 70HP 3-cylinder Johnson.
