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Vic Smith wrote:
While surfing outboard history, I came across this.

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/...ft-boat-crosed

"The Atlantic Crossing that you speak of was done by Jim Wynne, Ole
Botved of Botved-Coronet Outboard Motors, and one other pilot."

I assume your dad was the "other pilot."
Here's the funny thing.
When I first went into this link and clicked on
the hyperlink (the word "clip") in this:
"Here is a news clip from July 24, 1958"
I saw the newsreel. Most of it was about Egypt and something about
Krushchev.
But the end showed the boat and a nice shot of the 3 guys.
Some narration about the trip.
When I went into the link again, it wanted $5 bucks to see the clip.
You might want to pay if you can't see it free as I did, no doubt
because of a site glitch. It's a nice boating clip, and real nice
shot of the 3 crew mugging in close-up at the end.
Ever hear of the book "Iron Fist"?
It's a bio of Carl Kiekhaefer, founder of Mercury Marine.
Wouldn't mind reading that.
There's some interesting stuff out there about Jim Wynne and
Kiekhaefer and the invention of the stern drive.
Should interest boaters with a "historical" interest.

--Vic


Wow!

The trip was done more than once, by the way. The trip in the clip was
not the one my dad was on. He came across later in the year in a
slightly different boat. Some of the facts in the description
accompanying the news clip are a bit off, too. Matters not.

My father was the New England distributor for Coronet Boats for some
years. In those days, they were fiberglass sheathed marine ply boats,
nicely finished, too. Our "demo" was blue with an off-white top.

The Coronets were very tough boats. A customer of my father's hit a red
nun in New Haven harbor once and sunk the damned thing. It was made of
steel. The boat had a slight splinter on the bow.

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On Mar 29, 12:06*pm, HK wrote:
Vic Smith wrote:
While surfing outboard history, I came across this.

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/...ft-boat-crosed

"The Atlantic Crossing that you speak of was done by Jim Wynne, Ole
Botved of Botved-Coronet Outboard Motors, and one other pilot."

I assume your dad was the "other pilot."
Here's the funny thing.
When I first went into this link and clicked on
the hyperlink (the word "clip") in this:
"Here is a news clip from July 24, 1958"
I saw the newsreel. *Most of it was about Egypt and something about
Krushchev.
But the end showed the boat and a nice shot of the 3 guys.
Some narration about the trip.
When I went into the link again, it wanted $5 bucks to see the clip.
You might want to pay if you can't see it free as I did, no doubt
because of a site glitch. *It's a nice boating clip, and real nice
shot of the 3 crew mugging in close-up at the end.
Ever hear of the book "Iron Fist"?
It's a bio of Carl Kiekhaefer, founder of Mercury Marine.
Wouldn't mind reading that.
There's some interesting stuff out there about Jim Wynne and
Kiekhaefer and the invention of the stern drive.
Should interest boaters with a "historical" interest.

--Vic

Wow!

The trip was done more than once, by the way. The trip in the clip was
not the one my dad was on. He came across later in the year in a
slightly different boat. Some of the facts in the description
accompanying the news clip are a bit off, too. Matters not.

My father was the New England distributor for Coronet Boats for some
years. In those days, they were fiberglass sheathed marine ply boats,
nicely finished, too. Our "demo" was blue with an off-white top.

The Coronets were very tough boats. A customer of my father's hit a red
nun in New Haven harbor once and sunk the damned thing. It was made of
steel. The boat had a slight splinter on the bow.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

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On Mar 29, 12:09*pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:06*pm, HK wrote:



Vic Smith wrote:
While surfing outboard history, I came across this.

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/...ft-boat-crosed

"The Atlantic Crossing that you speak of was done by Jim Wynne, Ole
Botved of Botved-Coronet Outboard Motors, and one other pilot."

I assume your dad was the "other pilot."
Here's the funny thing.
When I first went into this link and clicked on
the hyperlink (the word "clip") in this:
"Here is a news clip from July 24, 1958"
I saw the newsreel. *Most of it was about Egypt and something about
Krushchev.
But the end showed the boat and a nice shot of the 3 guys.
Some narration about the trip.
When I went into the link again, it wanted $5 bucks to see the clip.
You might want to pay if you can't see it free as I did, no doubt
because of a site glitch. *It's a nice boating clip, and real nice
shot of the 3 crew mugging in close-up at the end.
Ever hear of the book "Iron Fist"?
It's a bio of Carl Kiekhaefer, founder of Mercury Marine.
Wouldn't mind reading that.
There's some interesting stuff out there about Jim Wynne and
Kiekhaefer and the invention of the stern drive.
Should interest boaters with a "historical" interest.

--Vic

Wow!

The trip was done more than once, by the way. The trip in the clip was
not the one my dad was on. He came across later in the year in a
slightly different boat. Some of the facts in the description
accompanying the news clip are a bit off, too. Matters not.

My father was the New England distributor for Coronet Boats for some
years. In those days, they were fiberglass sheathed marine ply boats,
nicely finished, too. Our "demo" was blue with an off-white top.

The Coronets were very tough boats. A customer of my father's hit a red
nun in New Haven harbor once and sunk the damned thing. It was made of
steel. The boat had a slight splinter on the bow.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Get lost..." Rainbow Warrior"...lol. What a jealous turd of a human
you are.

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While surfing outboard history, I came across this.

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/...ft-boat-crosed

"The Atlantic Crossing that you speak of was done by Jim Wynne, Ole
Botved of Botved-Coronet Outboard Motors, and one other pilot."

I assume your dad was the "other pilot."
Here's the funny thing.
When I first went into this link and clicked on
the hyperlink (the word "clip") in this:
"Here is a news clip from July 24, 1958"
I saw the newsreel. Most of it was about Egypt and something about
Krushchev.
But the end showed the boat and a nice shot of the 3 guys.
Some narration about the trip.
When I went into the link again, it wanted $5 bucks to see the clip.
You might want to pay if you can't see it free as I did, no doubt
because of a site glitch. It's a nice boating clip, and real nice
shot of the 3 crew mugging in close-up at the end.
Ever hear of the book "Iron Fist"?
It's a bio of Carl Kiekhaefer, founder of Mercury Marine.
Wouldn't mind reading that.
There's some interesting stuff out there about Jim Wynne and
Kiekhaefer and the invention of the stern drive.
Should interest boaters with a "historical" interest.

--Vic

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On Mar 29, 12:34*pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:09*pm, wrote:





On Mar 29, 12:06*pm, HK wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
While surfing outboard history, I came across this.

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/...ft-boat-crosed

"The Atlantic Crossing that you speak of was done by Jim Wynne, Ole
Botved of Botved-Coronet Outboard Motors, and one other pilot."

I assume your dad was the "other pilot."
Here's the funny thing.
When I first went into this link and clicked on
the hyperlink (the word "clip") in this:
"Here is a news clip from July 24, 1958"
I saw the newsreel. *Most of it was about Egypt and something about
Krushchev.
But the end showed the boat and a nice shot of the 3 guys.
Some narration about the trip.
When I went into the link again, it wanted $5 bucks to see the clip..
You might want to pay if you can't see it free as I did, no doubt
because of a site glitch. *It's a nice boating clip, and real nice
shot of the 3 crew mugging in close-up at the end.
Ever hear of the book "Iron Fist"?
It's a bio of Carl Kiekhaefer, founder of Mercury Marine.
Wouldn't mind reading that.
There's some interesting stuff out there about Jim Wynne and
Kiekhaefer and the invention of the stern drive.
Should interest boaters with a "historical" interest.

--Vic

Wow!

The trip was done more than once, by the way. The trip in the clip was
not the one my dad was on. He came across later in the year in a
slightly different boat. Some of the facts in the description
accompanying the news clip are a bit off, too. Matters not.

My father was the New England distributor for Coronet Boats for some
years. In those days, they were fiberglass sheathed marine ply boats,
nicely finished, too. Our "demo" was blue with an off-white top.

The Coronets were very tough boats. A customer of my father's hit a red
nun in New Haven harbor once and sunk the damned thing. It was made of
steel. The boat had a slight splinter on the bow.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Get lost..." Rainbow Warrior"...lol. What a jealous turd of a human
you are.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Do you believe Harry's story about his dad getting a fireboat welcome
in NYC?

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On Mar 29, 2:11*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Sometime the real liars aren't obvious.
I was a horseplayer for years, and always enjoyed reading Barney
Nagler's column in the Racing Form.
In one column he got on a fighter real hard about the fighter saying
that Jimmy Doolittle had tied a medal the fighter had won in Japan to
a bomb destined for Tokyo via the Doolittle raid.
As I recall the fighter was a crewman on the Hornet, and asked
Doolittle to "send the medal back home."
Nagler said the story was a fabrication "cut from the whole cloth" and
really derided the fighter. *I believed him, but thought he also had a
deep personal dislike for the guy. *But hell, he sounded like he just
*knew* it was a lie. *Since he was a nominal journalist, I ASSumed he
had the facts.
A couple years later my 1st grader son brings home a WWII book
from the library. *I had read hundreds, maybe thousands of WWII books,
but not this one - a hardcover with lots of pics.
I browse the book, and there's a picture of Doolittle tying the
fighter's medal to a bomb.
The pic is here, but the caption in the book mentioned that it was the
fighter's medal. *I can't remember the fighter, but any fight fan
would know him.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
I was so ****ed at Nagler lying that somebody else was lying that I
xeroxed the Form article and the book pic and sent them to him at the
Form and told him to apologize. *He ignored me of course.
Everything isn't on the internet. *Yet.
That book named the fighter, but I don't see it on the net. *
My assumption is that somewhere there's a pic of Harry's dad's
fireboat welcome. *Whether you like it or not.
And when it shows up, it won't matter to you.
Just as proof didn't mean anything to Nagler.
Hate does that. *Twists the soul, and the devil takes hold.
Then the devil says "Post about the fireboat welcome."
And the devil's toy pounds the keyboard with cloven hoof.
Get thee to church Loogy! *Repent your wicked ways!
You need an exorcism. *Badly.

--Vic

I have a response to an email by the historian for the NYFD that
states, without doubt that there has never, ever been a fireboat
welcome for what Harry claims. It goes on to list, in order all of the
fireboat welcomes that have happened in NYC.

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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:11:11 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Sometime the real liars aren't obvious.
I was a horseplayer for years, and always enjoyed reading Barney
Nagler's column in the Racing Form.
In one column he got on a fighter real hard about the fighter saying
that Jimmy Doolittle had tied a medal the fighter had won in Japan to
a bomb destined for Tokyo via the Doolittle raid.
As I recall the fighter was a crewman on the Hornet, and asked
Doolittle to "send the medal back home."
Nagler said the story was a fabrication "cut from the whole cloth" and
really derided the fighter. I believed him, but thought he also had a
deep personal dislike for the guy. But hell, he sounded like he just
*knew* it was a lie. Since he was a nominal journalist, I ASSumed he
had the facts.
A couple years later my 1st grader son brings home a WWII book
from the library. I had read hundreds, maybe thousands of WWII books,
but not this one - a hardcover with lots of pics.
I browse the book, and there's a picture of Doolittle tying the
fighter's medal to a bomb.
The pic is here, but the caption in the book mentioned that it was the
fighter's medal. I can't remember the fighter, but any fight fan
would know him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
I was so ****ed at Nagler lying that somebody else was lying that I
xeroxed the Form article and the book pic and sent them to him at the
Form and told him to apologize. He ignored me of course.
Everything isn't on the internet. Yet.
That book named the fighter, but I don't see it on the net.
My assumption is that somewhere there's a pic of Harry's dad's
fireboat welcome. Whether you like it or not.
And when it shows up, it won't matter to you.
Just as proof didn't mean anything to Nagler.
Hate does that. Twists the soul, and the devil takes hold.
Then the devil says "Post about the fireboat welcome."
And the devil's toy pounds the keyboard with cloven hoof.
Get thee to church Loogy! Repent your wicked ways!
You need an exorcism. Badly.

--Vic

Vic, as long as you can't be adversely affected by the consequences,
it's OK to believe everything Harry says or has said.

Some of us know better.
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Sometime the real liars aren't obvious.
I was a horseplayer for years, and always enjoyed reading Barney
Nagler's column in the Racing Form.
In one column he got on a fighter real hard about the fighter saying
that Jimmy Doolittle had tied a medal the fighter had won in Japan to
a bomb destined for Tokyo via the Doolittle raid.
As I recall the fighter was a crewman on the Hornet, and asked
Doolittle to "send the medal back home."
Nagler said the story was a fabrication "cut from the whole cloth" and
really derided the fighter. I believed him, but thought he also had a
deep personal dislike for the guy. But hell, he sounded like he just
*knew* it was a lie. Since he was a nominal journalist, I ASSumed he
had the facts.
A couple years later my 1st grader son brings home a WWII book
from the library. I had read hundreds, maybe thousands of WWII books,
but not this one - a hardcover with lots of pics.
I browse the book, and there's a picture of Doolittle tying the
fighter's medal to a bomb.
The pic is here, but the caption in the book mentioned that it was the
fighter's medal. I can't remember the fighter, but any fight fan
would know him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
I was so ****ed at Nagler lying that somebody else was lying that I
xeroxed the Form article and the book pic and sent them to him at the
Form and told him to apologize. He ignored me of course.
Everything isn't on the internet. Yet.
That book named the fighter, but I don't see it on the net.
My assumption is that somewhere there's a pic of Harry's dad's
fireboat welcome. Whether you like it or not.
And when it shows up, it won't matter to you.
Just as proof didn't mean anything to Nagler.
Hate does that. Twists the soul, and the devil takes hold.
Then the devil says "Post about the fireboat welcome."
And the devil's toy pounds the keyboard with cloven hoof.
Get thee to church Loogy! Repent your wicked ways!
You need an exorcism. Badly.

--Vic

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"Vic Smith" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Sometime the real liars aren't obvious.
I was a horseplayer for years, and always enjoyed reading Barney
Nagler's column in the Racing Form.
In one column he got on a fighter real hard about the fighter saying
that Jimmy Doolittle had tied a medal the fighter had won in Japan to
a bomb destined for Tokyo via the Doolittle raid.
As I recall the fighter was a crewman on the Hornet, and asked
Doolittle to "send the medal back home."
Nagler said the story was a fabrication "cut from the whole cloth" and
really derided the fighter. I believed him, but thought he also had a
deep personal dislike for the guy. But hell, he sounded like he just
*knew* it was a lie. Since he was a nominal journalist, I ASSumed he
had the facts.
A couple years later my 1st grader son brings home a WWII book
from the library. I had read hundreds, maybe thousands of WWII books,
but not this one - a hardcover with lots of pics.
I browse the book, and there's a picture of Doolittle tying the
fighter's medal to a bomb.
The pic is here, but the caption in the book mentioned that it was the
fighter's medal. I can't remember the fighter, but any fight fan
would know him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
I was so ****ed at Nagler lying that somebody else was lying that I
xeroxed the Form article and the book pic and sent them to him at the
Form and told him to apologize. He ignored me of course.
Everything isn't on the internet. Yet.
That book named the fighter, but I don't see it on the net.
My assumption is that somewhere there's a pic of Harry's dad's
fireboat welcome. Whether you like it or not.
And when it shows up, it won't matter to you.
Just as proof didn't mean anything to Nagler.
Hate does that. Twists the soul, and the devil takes hold.
Then the devil says "Post about the fireboat welcome."
And the devil's toy pounds the keyboard with cloven hoof.
Get thee to church Loogy! Repent your wicked ways!
You need an exorcism. Badly.

--Vic

What was that county tune...
'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'........ and you'd have to assume, went to
visit our own possessed poster.

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Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Sometime the real liars aren't obvious.
I was a horseplayer for years, and always enjoyed reading Barney
Nagler's column in the Racing Form.
In one column he got on a fighter real hard about the fighter saying
that Jimmy Doolittle had tied a medal the fighter had won in Japan to
a bomb destined for Tokyo via the Doolittle raid.
As I recall the fighter was a crewman on the Hornet, and asked
Doolittle to "send the medal back home."
Nagler said the story was a fabrication "cut from the whole cloth" and
really derided the fighter. I believed him, but thought he also had a
deep personal dislike for the guy. But hell, he sounded like he just
*knew* it was a lie. Since he was a nominal journalist, I ASSumed he
had the facts.
A couple years later my 1st grader son brings home a WWII book
from the library. I had read hundreds, maybe thousands of WWII books,
but not this one - a hardcover with lots of pics.
I browse the book, and there's a picture of Doolittle tying the
fighter's medal to a bomb.
The pic is here, but the caption in the book mentioned that it was the
fighter's medal. I can't remember the fighter, but any fight fan
would know him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
I was so ****ed at Nagler lying that somebody else was lying that I
xeroxed the Form article and the book pic and sent them to him at the
Form and told him to apologize. He ignored me of course.
Everything isn't on the internet. Yet.
That book named the fighter, but I don't see it on the net.
My assumption is that somewhere there's a pic of Harry's dad's
fireboat welcome. Whether you like it or not.
And when it shows up, it won't matter to you.
Just as proof didn't mean anything to Nagler.
Hate does that. Twists the soul, and the devil takes hold.
Then the devil says "Post about the fireboat welcome."
And the devil's toy pounds the keyboard with cloven hoof.
Get thee to church Loogy! Repent your wicked ways!
You need an exorcism. Badly.

--Vic


I wouldn't give loogy or a few others here the time of day if it would
save their scummy lives.