My closest memories to that would be seeing a bay chocked with wooden
built PT boats and the sky full of aircraft like an airborn hive of bees.

Tom

Gene Kearns ) wrote:
: On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:21:47 -0400, HarryKrause
: wrote:

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: On a sailboat, your stability comes from the weight in your keel working
: against the lateral push from your sails. Perhaps a "built-down" ferro
: sailboat hull might have significant stability, but I'd rather enjoy the
: ride on a properly keeled glass sailboat of the same size class.

: But those liberty ships were pretty neat, too. I remember coming into
: Wilmington, NC as a kid and seeing Liberty Ships moored in the Cape
: Fear River as far as the eye could see....

: Neat stories about their construction, too, from my dad. He worked at
: Newport News building them, until he was conscripted in WWII.

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