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Sailboat Popularity Question ... $4 per gal fuel
Jeff wrote in
: Yes, we stayed there 3 weeks (mostly at the City, but some at Ashley) and loved it. If we move South, Charleston is on the short list. (My first choice is Key West, at least for the Winter, but my wife prefers a bit more sophistication.) Y'all come bah 'n sit a spell...(c; Plenty o' room foah evahrebody. We love Yankee and Canadian dollahs, too! Many of the condo slips at The Harborage At Ashley Marina are rented out to transients. If you visited Ashley before, you're in for a shock. They took the whole marina apart, board by board, and put in all new facilities and completely restored the docks. Hell, E-dock even has rubber bumpers, again! The building has been totally renovated. The heads/showers are all first class. Where the store was by the laundry is now the condo office. The store is just a tiny one on the ground floor, now, and, unfortunately, the Yanmar diesel shop has moved out of the marina. It's really a luxury place, now. Many people, interested in less pricey accomodations, can also find dock space on the south end of the old Navy base marina up the Cooper River a couple of miles from the new bridge. No fancy facilities, but the docks are good and friendly inside a face dock which protects them. Larger yachts may prefer Charleston Harbor Marina at Patriots Point Naval Museum by the USS Yorktown (CV-10). Big chain-falled floating docks with lots of deep water and nice facilities, too. Very nice view of the Peninsula from Mt Pleasant, where the elite prefer to reside. A water taxi (pontoon barge with twin 90 Hondas) provides ferry service from the marina to the passenger terminal on the end of the city market at Market St., handy for transients....Very easy, no bridge in and out from sea. |
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"Scotty" wrote in
: Anybody else see the irony in this? Scotty You gotta know a diesel idling at 1000 RPM, only pulling an A/C compressor and alternator, uses nearly no fuel at all, right?..... |
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Larry wrote: Larger yachts may prefer Charleston Harbor Marina at Patriots Point Naval Museum by the USS Yorktown (CV-10). BIt of trivia............... my mom welded the name on the Yorktown when it was in Bremerton getting ready for Korea. Bob |
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"Larry" wrote in message ... "Scotty" wrote in : Anybody else see the irony in this? Scotty You gotta know a diesel idling at 1000 RPM, only pulling an A/C compressor and alternator, uses nearly no fuel at all, right?..... Is that why they have 'idleing laws' in some cities? Scotty |
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"Bob" wrote in news:1155345709.958346.236630
@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: BIt of trivia............... my mom welded the name on the Yorktown when it was in Bremerton getting ready for Korea. Bob http://www.patriotspoint.org/ Bob, go to the Patriot's Point webpages and look for the contacts to them. I'm sure they would be MOST pleased to talk with you about this piece of Yorktown history and would LOVE to add any pictures and memorabilia to the museum's vast collection and displays. Is your mom alive and able to travel? They'd be very interested in taking her on a VIP tour of "her ship"....Contact them. Thanks for sharing the info. Her welding is doing a fine job holding the name on the carrier....(c; It's still there. I bet if you ask them for at least a picture of her welding job, they'd make arrangements for you to have it. Yorktown and Patriot's Point is a fascinating place. If you ever get there, notice the red wires leading to fire alarm heads throughout the ship. Our ham club, a ham named Dan and I in particular, spent week after week working in the summer heat to install those heads onto the red wires to satisfy the state fire marshall so Yorktown could resume its sleepovers for Boy and Girl Scouts across the country. There's around 400 alarm heads in a huge system PP couldn't afford to have installed, at the time, so we hams took up our screwdrivers to pay them back for our clubhouse, located in the very forward compartment of Yorktown, the forward control room right up under the forward edge of the flight deck, the bridge to control the ship should the island bridge become blown away or inoperative. Charleston Amateur Radio Society has had a 2-meter ham radio repeater (146.790 Mhz) on top of the mast of Yorktown since it arrived. I used to spend nearly every weekend over there "doing something" to help Yorktown, in my younger days...(c; |
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"Scotty" wrote in
: Is that why they have 'idleing laws' in some cities? No, "they" think it reduces air pollution, which is probably true for gas cars spewing out huge clouds of NOx diesels don't produce. |
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Yo,, Larry ,, as someone who has driven a school bus .... those things spew
out clouds of smoke, fumes, pollution. In most states there are laws now that a school bus can not sit and idle. ================================================== ===== "Larry" wrote in message ... "Scotty" wrote in : Is that why they have 'idleing laws' in some cities? No, "they" think it reduces air pollution, which is probably true for gas cars spewing out huge clouds of NOx diesels don't produce. |
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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in news:2RIDg.1070$v_1.596
@trndny01: In most states there are laws now that a school bus can not sit and idle. Isn't it interesting hypocracy where a school bus can't sit idle, but it's ok for some fat cat to cruise around in a 70' yacht with twin 1500hp engines burning 100 gallons an hour just for his pleasure? And, noone does anything about the billions of unnecessary airline seat miles flown around the world every year. Delta Airlines, ALONE, burned 9.4 million gallons in a year. I heard them talking with the guy who buys Delta's fuel contracts, bitching about how much money it was costing bankrupt Delta as the fuel prices rose to meet par with the Illuminati- controlled Federal Reserve's worthless dollars. Was I the only one who notice how CLEAN the air was 3 days after they grounded them all on 9/13/01, or was that just over South Carolina? What's a diesel bus burn idling for an hour a day, 2 litres? 3? A diesel engine is an air pump. Lots of air going into it at idle burning a tiny amount of diesel fuel until the fire goes out and it pumps what's left out the pipe, still full of oxygen with the lamp black soot and CO2 the plants breathe. Back in the 80's, I was an electronics department head for the SC Technical Education Center in Sumter, SC, a tiny city East of Columbia. I drove an old '68 Mercedes 200D, 2.0L, naturally-aspirated diesel with no pollution controls at all. Like my 220D, it uses a mechanical fuel pump regulated with a lambskin diaphram that measures air volume flowing into it past the throttle plate in a venturi in the intake....very unsophisticated...no electronics at all..... One day I was in the school's auto shop with the Benz diesel up on the rack greasing its chassis. (Remember zirk fittings and greased bearings that never wore out?) The students and instructor were pouring over a big, carb'd V-8 Ford station wagon someone had donated to the school soon after the contrived "gas crisis" of '73....long lines, remember? The old Ford, of course, had America's favorite gas guzzling 428 in it and no amount of wishing was going to reduce the emissions from the simple old carb that hadn't changed much since the Model A breathed its first breath. Frustrated with their inability to get it under the limits-of-the-time, I asked them to wheel the big Sun analyzer over to my rack and check my old 200D smokin' monster, all 43hp of it. They set the gas analyzer to its highest ranges for NOx and CO so my old girl wouldn't pin all the big meters mechanics are so impressed with and held their breath as they stuffed the probe up her tailpipe. Huh?? The meters read ZERO! What the hell?? Downranging to the most sensitive setting CO and NOx barely moved off zero as I winked at my fellow TEC instructor and the boys learned something new, today.... I thanked them for the check and continued my extensive grease job down the propeller shaft to the independent rear axle zirk fittings trying not to miss any as the instructor tried to explain why this nasty old oil burner didn't just spew out NOx and CO. We couldn't even make it move the meters pumping the diesel's accelerator, which always created lots of carbon to coat that damned white Cadillac tailgating me...(c; It was a good thing they couldn't measure unburned oil and carbon black. I'd have moved those meters...(c; My tailpipe was well protected from internal rusting.... The diesel bus is no threat to create smog, at all....not unless the damned EPA, tinkering with its injection, caused it. |
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