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Mr. Luddite

On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/8/16 2:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:15:23 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

http://pt305.org/home/

Restored and operational. Very nice!

In the 50s they were virtually giving these things away. They were
being sold at auction and most went for the scrap iron price of the
engines.
When you see what is there in the restoration gallery of pictures you
do get an idea of how hard it is to keep a wood boat alive.

When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, someone had a PT boat they kept in
Milford Harbor and ran it out in LI Sound once it a while. I saw it
running twice. It was pretty fast and *very* loud.

While stationed in Annapolis in the late 70's I noticed a rather large
boat with big twin outboards on it sitting behind a building. Turns out
it was an experimental concrete boat that the Navy had thought of
producing for use in Vietnam as a river patrol boat. Probably cheap to
build but sorta unpractical. Most of the river patrol boats were
Uniflites outfitted with water jet propulsion.