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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:07:45 -0400, jim wrote:

Just kidding Wayne. That was how krause would typically respond. You
know how he hates to travel by boat.

I know, that's what he says now anyway. Things were different when
he had the Hatteras sportfish with the "Corinthian" leather seats.
:-)

That's before he had to leave Florida.

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:39:27 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On a 500
mile offshore run the trawler will beat any speedboat I know.

How little you know. Berkeley Breathed the cartoonist,[ draws Opus]
wrote for Boating and had a forty foot speedboat. Twin 600 hp Seatek
racing engines with 50 percent more power than a Cat or Cummins the
same size and weight. Arneson drives the ones with the shafts exiting
through the transom well above the on plane waterline. Seven blade
props that run with half the prop in the water. No drag from a shaft
or hub. 65 top speed, 50 for 900 miles. Deep V, intended for open
ocean. Low aero drag. No windshield, let alone radar. V berth, a small
saloon with room for six around a table. Tiny galley, cramped head. A
Carribean cruiser for the hurricane season.

Casady

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:59:42 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

No windshield, let alone radar. V berth, a small
saloon with room for six around a table. Tiny galley, cramped head.

No thanks.

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On Oct 16, 11:48*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

looked great, Wayne.

Looks like you had some good sceney and fun.

what is that metal wreck in this one?

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...404822amo7.jpg

Wrecked twin engine C-46 aircraft at Norman's Cay, crashed landed in
the water by drug smugglers in 1980.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19801115-0

Is the small resort on Norman's up and running again?


Capt. Bill

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:54:24 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:59:42 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

No windshield, let alone radar. V berth, a small
saloon with room for six around a table. Tiny galley, cramped head.

No thanks.

The fuel consumption would do it for me. It would outrun a pirate, or
weather, however.

Casady

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:52:21 -0700 (PDT), "Capt.Bill"
wrote:

On Oct 16, 11:48*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

looked great, Wayne.

Looks like you had some good sceney and fun.

what is that metal wreck in this one?

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...404822amo7.jpg

Wrecked twin engine C-46 aircraft at Norman's Cay, crashed landed in
the water by drug smugglers in 1980.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19801115-0

Is the small resort on Norman's up and running again?


Capt. Bill

There is McDuff's Restaurant/Norman's Cay Beach Club on the west side
near the middle of the air strip:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8246950

We ate at McDuff's twice, once going south and again coming back.
The food is good and they have a few rental beach cottages.

We anchored near here, took the dinghy across to the old dock, and
then walked up the road to the air strip:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/941075

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On Oct 18, 1:52*am, "Capt.Bill" wrote:
On Oct 16, 11:48*pm, Wayne.B wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

looked great, Wayne.

Looks like you had some good sceney and fun.

what is that metal wreck in this one?

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...404822amo7.jpg

Wrecked twin engine C-46 aircraft at Norman's Cay, crashed landed in
the water by drug smugglers in 1980.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19801115-0

Is the small resort on Norman's up and running again?

Capt. Bill

Ah, the "Bermuda Triangle" strikes again!

(Or maybe a heat seeking missle or LAWS rocket)

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Jim wrote:
Wayne, nice pics. One question though. Why did you choose a slow boat as
your mode of transportation. You could have done a low fly by in a plane
*and gotten some great shots out the plane window. ;-)



Wayne.B wrote:
If you can figure out how to get pictures of coral reefs, fish and
caves from a plane window, I'd like to buy that camera. * :-)


No problem. I'll tell the Air Force you're interested in one of their
spy jobs they are decommissioning with budget cuts ;)

I prefer the up-close look myself. No airplane will ever be able to
back up slowly while you're tracking a big lobster!

FB- Doug King

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On Oct 18, 8:06*pm, wrote:
*Jim *wrote:
Wayne, nice pics. One question though. Why did you choose a slow boat as
your mode of transportation. You could have done a low fly by in a plane
*and gotten some great shots out the plane window. ;-)

*Wayne.B *wrote:
If you can figure out how to get pictures of coral reefs, fish and
caves from a plane window, I'd like to buy that camera. * :-)

No problem. I'll tell the Air Force you're interested in one of their
spy jobs they are decommissioning with budget cuts *;)

I prefer the up-close look myself. No airplane will ever be able to
back up slowly while you're tracking a big lobster!

FB- Doug King

That's one of the very reasons that when I fly I always will request a
back seat. I've never heard of a plane backing into a mountain.

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"Tim" wrote in message
...
On Oct 18, 8:06 pm, wrote:
Jim wrote:
Wayne, nice pics. One question though. Why did you choose a slow boat
as
your mode of transportation. You could have done a low fly by in a
plane
and gotten some great shots out the plane window. ;-)

Wayne.B wrote:
If you can figure out how to get pictures of coral reefs, fish and
caves from a plane window, I'd like to buy that camera. :-)

No problem. I'll tell the Air Force you're interested in one of their
spy jobs they are decommissioning with budget cuts ;)

I prefer the up-close look myself. No airplane will ever be able to
back up slowly while you're tracking a big lobster!

FB- Doug King

That's one of the very reasons that when I fly I always will request a
back seat. I've never heard of a plane backing into a mountain.

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Watched most of a documentary show on salvaging a big 747.
Seems that the 'black box' (cockpit voice recorder) is installed near the
tail section because that's where the engineers feel it has the best chance
of surviving.