"Navigator" wrote in message
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Is the cheeky 'she's motoring you know' such a lie?


Sailing under her own power without a tow was the biggest nautical event around
here in many years; it was even talked about here a few times. To deny it
repeatedly makes you look foolish.




Sorry. Do you really think I don't know the
Constitution better than anyone here?


Why? You seem to know very little about it. I kept my last boat within a
few
hundred yards of the ship for 8 years; I've lived within 5 miles of her most
of
my life. I've been aboard her many times; gotten tri ps on her;

You got trips on the Constitution? When was that exactly? I really lived
within 0.5 miles of her for 5 years!

After the refit they started doing about 12 "turn arounds" a year - rides got
easier to get.


and special
tours. However, my brother knows more, since he's been building a detail
model
of her for the last 5 years or so.


Did you know I was a 'friend' of
the Constitution?


No that's probably another troll. The navy is not permitted to solicit
donations, and the museum doesn't have a "Friend" membership. But even if
its
true, what's the point? Does making a donation make you an expert?

I visited her quite often on my walks around her. There were certainly
no naval personnel there in my day. Just because she had not been
decommissioned did not mean that the Navy had any interest in her
upkeep. Given what happened to her and the desperate attempts of private
citizens (and I include myself in a very small way there) to raise
awareness of what was happening I think it was more a sense of shame
brought down on the 'powers that be' that got her to the standard she is
in now. Believe me, at one point she was only months away from bursting
open like a rotten apple -it was a terrible sight for a sailor to see!
She was closed to the public becuase she was so weak and unsafe!


But believe what you wish -it's all in your perception
anyway.


And the perception of everyone else. Way to go, Navsprit!


Jeff, I would have expected more from you than that cheap shot. Oh well.

Why? Am I not entitled to cheap shots?