On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:34:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:26:18 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:19:39 +0000, IanM
wrote:

Joe wrote:
On Feb 20, 7:40 pm, Larry wrote:
"Capt. JG" wrote areasolutions:

I suggest you hoard your gold... quietly.
Cleared $1000 easy, in today's bloodbath, but fell back as the dumping
started.

You should get a sailboat and use gold as ballast.
A cubic foot weighs over 1200 pounds.
Shiney cantering gold keel perhaps.

Too high a risk of keel failure ;-(

back in the 80's my brother (USCG) rescued a couple who had all of
their retirement and savings on the boat in gold coins. Over 250K.
They sold everything and were going to enjoy a life of cruising. The
boat , a trawler, pitch poled and "exploded" into a thousand chunks of
fiberglass when it flopped down off a rolling wave crest. All the gold
was lost. They were told a dozen times not to attempt crossing the bar
but due to fatique they decided to risk it.

Well that's another way to loose everything. It sounds like their gold
was poorly stowed.

I've contemplated this before. If I was the tax man, I'd take a *very*
close look at anyone casting their own keel!

There was a book written about doing just that. The Golden Keel,
Desmond Bagley, is about smuggling gold out of Italy by casting a gold
keel for a delivery yacht. Not a bad read.

There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.

Casady

Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.

Casady

Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.

Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied it
in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of "She
who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and I
was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:15 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.

Casady

Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.

Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied it
in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of "She
who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and I
was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin


I have only read a couple of his books, Trustee from the Tool room and
On the Beach. Both of which I liked. Never read up on the author

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:15 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.

Casady
Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.
Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied it
in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of "She
who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and I
was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin


I have only read a couple of his books, Trustee from the Tool room and
On the Beach. Both of which I liked. Never read up on the author

"A Town Like Alice" and "A Far Country" are particularly good,, "No
Highway" is cool, he predicted metal fatigue taking down an airliner
before the Comet problems...

Cheers
Martin

Marty wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:15 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.
Casady
Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.
Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied
it in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of
"She who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and
I was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin


I have only read a couple of his books, Trustee from the Tool room and
On the Beach. Both of which I liked. Never read up on the author

"A Town Like Alice" and "A Far Country" are particularly good,, "No
Highway" is cool, he predicted metal fatigue taking down an airliner
before the Comet problems...

Cheers
Martin


I've been collecting old movies.
Some of them are getting really hard to find.
No Highway in the Sky is one of the ones I want but can't find.

But I have found...

PT-109
and
African Queen

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:21:50 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:15 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.

Casady
Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.
Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied it
in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of "She
who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and I
was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin


I have only read a couple of his books, Trustee from the Tool room and
On the Beach. Both of which I liked. Never read up on the author

"A Town Like Alice" and "A Far Country" are particularly good,, "No
Highway" is cool, he predicted metal fatigue taking down an airliner
before the Comet problems...

Cheers
Martin


From what little I read about him, after someone commented above, it
appears that he must have been a reasonably competent engineer as well
as a damned good author.

I wonder whether he actually foresaw the comet problem or whether he
just hung a story on metal fatigue?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:35:59 -0600, cavelamb
wrote:

Marty wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:34:15 -0500, Marty wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
There is a book about that same thing only it was diamonds Smuggled
out of Britain to evade currency restrictions and smuggled back inside
an engine from a lethal wreck near Tahiti.
Trustee From the Toolroom by Nevil Shute is what I sort of remember,
so i checked, Suspicion confirmed.
Casady
Lord, I remember reading that book years ago. As I had been a
machinist early in my career I thought it was a really good read.
Funny though I remember that the guy had a machine shop in his house
but not the diamonds.
Same here Bruce, read it more than 30 years ago when I was a teen.
Didn't remember the plot, but remembered the machinist aspect, envied
it in fact. Now I have a machine shop fifty feet from my front door,
better than having it in the basement,, at least in the opinion of
"She who must be obeyed"

I really liked Shute, until I learned more about the man himself and
I was left with rather bitter taste in my mouth.

Cheers
Martin


I have only read a couple of his books, Trustee from the Tool room and
On the Beach. Both of which I liked. Never read up on the author

"A Town Like Alice" and "A Far Country" are particularly good,, "No
Highway" is cool, he predicted metal fatigue taking down an airliner
before the Comet problems...

Cheers
Martin


I've been collecting old movies.
Some of them are getting really hard to find.
No Highway in the Sky is one of the ones I want but can't find.

But I have found...

PT-109
and
African Queen

I remember the African Queen. I thought it was one of the two best
cast movies I ever saw. The other one was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier....
I had read the book and when I saw the movie I was able to identify
every character before they spoke - terrific casting.

I didn't see PT-109. I don't remember the reason, maybe I thought it
was a Kennedy production? I don't remember.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

I remember the African Queen. I thought it was one of the two best
cast movies I ever saw. The other one was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier....
I had read the book and when I saw the movie I was able to identify
every character before they spoke - terrific casting.

I didn't see PT-109. I don't remember the reason, maybe I thought it
was a Kennedy production? I don't remember.


On display at Key Largo:
http://www.sv-loki.com/The_Trip/Flor...ricanQueen.jpg

This pic was taken in 2001. They would take it out on charters. I
think the steam engine worked, but they preferred to use the outboard.

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:09:10 -0500, jeff wrote:

This pic was taken in 2001. They would take it out on charters. I
think the steam engine worked, but they preferred to use the outboard.

Not the original engine. They put in a Diesel to make the movie.
Current engine is a 15hp twin. Written up in Boating.

Casady

Marty wrote in
:

30 years ago when I was a teen.


Boy, that'll hurt a lotta cruisers reading it.....me included!

.....44 years ago when I was a teen.................Nuts.