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"Joe" wrote in message
| You sound angry, guess your mass marrage did not last, and you got
| tired of selling flowers and passing out brocures at the airport.

I ran into some of those in Texas when I landed at the airport in Huston...
I offered to buy the girl and they left..... no sense of humour! ;-)

CM

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"Vito"

.. Did Kerry command one of
the (older?) PBRs or a Swift Boat and, if the latter, what kind/size?


here is a picture of the type of boat I think Kerry was on.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...3Doff%26sa%3DG

It's an aluminum Swiftship PBR. Most likely powered by 2- 12~71~TI,
thats 12 clyinder, 71 cubic inch per cylinder, twin turbo charged and
inner cooled Detroit diesels with jaccuzzi(sp?)water jets or standard
fixed props. 20-28 Kts depending ......

Joe









They also make some very nice crewboats, ....

I'll bet!! You didn't work for any Colombians did you (c:?

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"Capt. Mooron" wrote
I offered to buy the girl and they left..... no sense of humour! ;-)

I'm surprised. I ran into a group preparing press releases circa 1971. One
of the girls invited me to dinner at the motel they were renting. I told her
I'd expect to sleep with her if I did. Instead of being put off as I'd
hoped she replied "Sure!". I didn't believe it so next day she brought in a
church brochure showing a cute girl standing on a fish hook with the logo
"Be a Hooker for Jesus". I didn't go and later learned from an ex-moonie
that my suspicions had been well founded - that her buddies would have kept
me up all night and half the next day prothelsizing me.

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felton wrote in message . ..
On 11 Aug 2004 11:34:07 -0700, (Joe) wrote:

"Vito" wrote

Thanks for the info but tell us more. My PBR buddy never mentioned
Swiftboats and the recent History Channel doc on PBRs seemed focused on the
glass boats, so I was unaware of Swifts in the Brown Water Navy. A SEAL
mentioned using them but that was much earlier. Did Kerry command one of
the (older?) PBRs or a Swift Boat and, if the latter, what kind/size?

PBR is a class of boats, not a MFG. It stands for patrol boat river.
Many shallow draft boats fit the bill.


They also make some very nice crewboats, ....

I'll bet!! You didn't work for any Colombians did you (c:?

Well yes and no.

Mostly I worked in the Oilfield servicing the offshore drilling
industry.

But I did work as Mate on a supplyboat called the State Wave that was
leased to search for treasure off the coast of Columbia. To make a
very long complicated story short.... We found the Spanish Gallion.
The diving company was late on over 150K in boat rental fees. State
Boat wanted to take the boat off the job and hold all the diving and
search gear until payment was made in full. The dive co. in
parternship with the Columbian Govt had the crew arrested
and the boat impounded on trumped up BS charges(the columbians govt
was to get 1/2 of the treasure). The President of State Boat and VP of
operations and a few hired guns flew down and broke us out of jail. We
took back the Wave and meet the good Ol US Navy that was waiting for
us in international waters. The fuled us up and escorted us to a safe
waters. The dive Co. later put out a contrat on the prez of
Stateboat...He was packing some serious heat for a year or so untill
things cooled off. Quite the adventure.

Im writing a book about it called Columbian Gold.
How to finish it one of these years

Joe

That sounds interesting. After the big Savings & Loan Collapse of the
late 80's, I did some contract work on one of the larger busted s&ls.
On their inventory of defaulted loans were some really nice sounding
sailboats, that had all somehow ended up in Belize. I am sure the
bank would have been happy to sell those loans for a nickel on the
dollar, but that would mean having to travel down there and take
possession of those boats, which I think might have been the sticky
part. The bank wasn't going to make any effort to get them back.

I must admit I wondered about it. A midnight repo of a sailboat is
not the same as hooking up a car to a towtruck and hauling out of
there. I am not sure how that would have turned out:)



Sure it would be. Get a 220 foot supply boat with twin EMD's.
Have someone swim in and tie a tow line to the whole fleet. I bet you
could rip 10-20 60 footers at a time from the docks, might scuff a
few up but it would be well worth the effort if they were nice boats.
If the bank gave you the papers you could request the USCG, and the
USN to escort you once your in international waters.

Might cost you 35K to rent and fuel the boat for 8 days. Sounds like
my kind of adventure.

Joe

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"Vito" wrote in message

I didn't go and later learned from an ex-moonie
| that my suspicions had been well founded - that her buddies would have
kept
| me up all night and half the next day prothelsizing me.


Heh... no sweat... I can listen and screw at the same time! I was married
once! ;-)


CM