I though the OP was referring to a sailboat. One could
close the scuppers and flood the cockpit, but I don;t know what it would accomplish. Water would slosh around and enter via cockpit lockers. I don't know, this thread is silly anyway. Doug s/v CAllista "Paul Schilter" wrote in message ... Doug, Aren't most cockpits self bailing? So in order to flood the cockpit wouldn't you have to flood the engine room? Which would amount to sinking the boat. I speaking of a power boat. Paul Doug Dotson wrote: Why would the engines care about flooding the cockpit? "Paul Schilter" wrote in message ... dbohara, This is funny, if you used the space blanket with the reflective side out you'd light up like a bulb on the radar screen. I believe stealth technology is based on absorbing the energy and then having acute angles on the surface so the reflection that is left is diverted away. Floods his cockpit? I don't think the engines would like this. The solution is LEAD!!! Construct the whole boat of LEAD!!! :-) Paul wrote: snipped THIS IS PURELY HYPOTHETICAL. I have nothing to hide, jeez. Really, all this is about is my belief that some people are so reliant on high tech stuff that they forget about elegant low tech solutions. Would covering the entire boat with an aluminized "space blanket" with no exposed edges or folds reduce the radar cross section much? I assume the metal shrouds produce significant radar return so they are a problem unless he somehow replaced them. We can assume that he either doesnt run his engine or that he floods his cockpit partway to hide the engine IR signature. Go fast boats are probably easier to see than a small sailboat as their power output is so high. |
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 09:49:06 -0500,
Harry Krause wrote: Doug Dotson wrote: I guess. So what are you trying to run away from? The upcoming draft? Nah, the Democrat's who proposed restarting the draft were defeated. -- Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock We aim to please. Ourselves, mostly, but we do aim to please. Anthony DeBoer |
, it's not that hard these days to
get a new passport under a new name. Unless you're a fugitive, no one would ever have any reason to question its legitimacy. Actually it is getting much harder. Pressure is on for nations to use barcoding and other electronic means of imprinting on passports for recording, tabulating, and verifying entry and exit records. The phony document that fools an inspectors eyes won't fool the computers that examine it. Many countries are instituting policies of requiring visa's for people coming from nations that will not have have such fraud proofed passports. And then there's the coming biometric data requirements... |
OK, I confess, I am really trying to hide the nuke I built from
hundreds of old smoke detectors and parts from a '72 Camaro. The Purpose of flooding the cockpit while running the engine is to put a low temp high mass object 'tween you and any IR detector. As far as the aluminized space blanket for Radar, generally, it is edges and corners that produce the large radar return. 90 degree angles particularly make good returns which is why a tiny radar refelctor will give a much better return than most sailboats. A very large sphere (the size of your boat) will give less return than a 10" corner reflector. The purpose of the space blanket is to mask the edges and corners from things like the engine, the toerail, chainplates, etc. A space blanket with no sharp edges covering the sailboat should give less return than your average sailboat. I once took a course in radar theory but I know nothing of ANY practical application. Osama bin DB Cooper OHara Peggie Hall wrote: wrote: THIS IS PURELY HYPOTHETICAL. I have nothing to hide, jeez. I'm bored enough on a Saturday night to get into this one...:) IMO, how easy it would or wouldn't be to just disappear depends on the circumstances. If you're a fugitive being sought, it might not be that easy...but if you're someone who just wants to escape his life, it should be very easy. Just buy a boat without telling anyone...tell your friends and family that you have to go to Chicago, St, Louis, Paris--anywhere but out to sea--for a week...set sail instead...giving you at least a week's head start in a direction no one would ever look in...and even when they do think of checking on your boat--the one everyone knows you own--it'll still be in her slip. You could be anywhere in the world before anyone figured out how or when you left, or which direction to look. By then you've grown a beard, dyed your hair, lost 20 lbs...the only thing that might give away your location is any record of the places in which you've had to show your passport. But if you're REALLY determined to disappear, it's not that hard these days to get a new passport under a new name. Unless you're a fugitive, no one would ever have any reason to question its legitimacy. The only real issue would be money...but anyone planning such a move should be smart enough to quietly start transferring funds to an offshore account in an untraceable manner (convert to cash, deposit only that cash to offshore account) months or even years ahead of time. IOW, anyone who really wants to disappear can do it with some planning. -- Peggie ---------- Peggie Hall Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987 Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor" http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1 |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:37:02 GMT, Jim wrote:
Did someone sell Michael Jackson a sailboat? No, it was actually a bumboat. R. |
Peggie, this may be the first post I've ever seen from you that didn't
concern some sort of sea-going toilet...G You actually hit upon the best solution: hide in plain sight. A touch of plastic surgery, an industrial "accident" that obscures your fingerprints, a few grand for the "pro" falsified documents, and then hide in plain sight. The boat itself should be a Catalina 30...they are common as muck as my British relatives say. You ARE Captain Ron, sailing the "Marguritaville" to USVIs after a messy divorce. Good grief, talk about safety in numbers.... R. On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:07:30 GMT, Peggie Hall wrote: wrote: THIS IS PURELY HYPOTHETICAL. I have nothing to hide, jeez. I'm bored enough on a Saturday night to get into this one...:) IMO, how easy it would or wouldn't be to just disappear depends on the circumstances. If you're a fugitive being sought, it might not be that easy...but if you're someone who just wants to escape his life, it should be very easy. Just buy a boat without telling anyone...tell your friends and family that you have to go to Chicago, St, Louis, Paris--anywhere but out to sea--for a week...set sail instead...giving you at least a week's head start in a direction no one would ever look in...and even when they do think of checking on your boat--the one everyone knows you own--it'll still be in her slip. You could be anywhere in the world before anyone figured out how or when you left, or which direction to look. By then you've grown a beard, dyed your hair, lost 20 lbs...the only thing that might give away your location is any record of the places in which you've had to show your passport. But if you're REALLY determined to disappear, it's not that hard these days to get a new passport under a new name. Unless you're a fugitive, no one would ever have any reason to question its legitimacy. The only real issue would be money...but anyone planning such a move should be smart enough to quietly start transferring funds to an offshore account in an untraceable manner (convert to cash, deposit only that cash to offshore account) months or even years ahead of time. IOW, anyone who really wants to disappear can do it with some planning. |
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dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom says... I can't believe anyone is even responding to this wacko. Oh come on! It's an interesting exercise. |
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dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom says... THIS IS PURELY HYPOTHETICAL. I have nothing to hide, jeez. You'd better. I hope that the Homeland Security and the FBI see it that way. I happen to know that they monitor alot of these newsgroups including this one. Oh. You are one of THOSE people. |
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