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Keyser Soze

On 1/15/17 7:45 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:25:57 -0500,
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 22:09:22 -0500, wrote:

We were still working on a virtual zero budget but 2 of the guys
worked at International Harvester, fixing the same 6-71s the 40 footer
had. They managed to come up with all the parts we needed and get the
engines going. There were several handy guys around to fix the rest of
the broken stuff. I got my "ride" by rewiring the boat.

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Long live the DD 6-71s. We've put over 6,000 hours on our pair in the
last 13 years or so, 48,000 nautical miles at last count.

I don't know how many hours these guys had on them but this was a 20
year old Coast Guard boat. Fortunately the BM1 and the MM1 fixed these
things for a living and worked in a shop at IH. They did talk Norfolk
into hauling and painting it before we got it and it did make it up to
DC although it may have limped in on one engine. (rumors vary). It
took us a few weekends to get it going and god only knows how many
hours the guys spent on the engines but it was running good when I
left. If the CG had let me stay on the boat, I may have retired from
the reserve but some bean counter decided I was supposed to be in the
electronics unit, not the "deck" unit. I left shortly after that.

Wow...you and the lads protected the mighty Anacostia River from...from
what?