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Eisboch
 
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Default Skookum 53 Sighting


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:04:25 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:36:42 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Nice photo, but it looks like a dismasted motorsailor. I thought Derby
and Wichita were closer than 5000 miles.

Man, you'd need one hell of a pickup truck to tow that barge.


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For sure. It weighs 80,000 lbs and has an 8 ft draft among other
things. Apparently there was an option to get them with a sailing
rig. Although this one did not, it had a small mast to support the
outriggers.


80,000 pounds?

Good lord.


Not much more than my Navigator when I have a few of my beer drinking
friends aboard.

Eisboch