On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:54:27 -0500, 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.

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They used to build them in Stamford, CT at what eventually became
Yacht Haven West, now an office complex. Up until the mid to late 70s
there was a PT boat hull in the Yacht Haven parking lot. We bought
our first cruising sail boat there in 1974.