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http://pt305.org/home/

Restored and operational. Very nice!

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:15:23 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

http://pt305.org/home/

Restored and operational. Very nice!

In the 50s they were virtually giving these things away. They were
being sold at auction and most went for the scrap iron price of the
engines.
When you see what is there in the restoration gallery of pictures you
do get an idea of how hard it is to keep a wood boat alive.

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Oh yes. Hard to come by and super labor intensive.

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On 3/8/16 2:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:15:23 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

http://pt305.org/home/

Restored and operational. Very nice!

In the 50s they were virtually giving these things away. They were
being sold at auction and most went for the scrap iron price of the
engines.
When you see what is there in the restoration gallery of pictures you
do get an idea of how hard it is to keep a wood boat alive.



When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, someone had a PT boat they kept in
Milford Harbor and ran it out in LI Sound once it a while. I saw it
running twice. It was pretty fast and *very* loud.

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On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/8/16 2:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:15:23 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

http://pt305.org/home/

Restored and operational. Very nice!

In the 50s they were virtually giving these things away. They were
being sold at auction and most went for the scrap iron price of the
engines.
When you see what is there in the restoration gallery of pictures you
do get an idea of how hard it is to keep a wood boat alive.



When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, someone had a PT boat they kept in
Milford Harbor and ran it out in LI Sound once it a while. I saw it
running twice. It was pretty fast and *very* loud.


While stationed in Annapolis in the late 70's I noticed a rather large
boat with big twin outboards on it sitting behind a building. Turns out
it was an experimental concrete boat that the Navy had thought of
producing for use in Vietnam as a river patrol boat. Probably cheap to
build but sorta unpractical. Most of the river patrol boats were
Uniflites outfitted with water jet propulsion.

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 14:54:27 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 3/8/16 2:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:15:23 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

http://pt305.org/home/

Restored and operational. Very nice!

In the 50s they were virtually giving these things away. They were
being sold at auction and most went for the scrap iron price of the
engines.
When you see what is there in the restoration gallery of pictures you
do get an idea of how hard it is to keep a wood boat alive.



When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, someone had a PT boat they kept in
Milford Harbor and ran it out in LI Sound once it a while. I saw it
running twice. It was pretty fast and *very* loud.

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They used to build them in Stamford, CT at what eventually became
Yacht Haven West, now an office complex. Up until the mid to late 70s
there was a PT boat hull in the Yacht Haven parking lot. We bought
our first cruising sail boat there in 1974.

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I always wanted a fully decked PBR to terrorize the jet ski's on lake Carlyle...

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:11:32 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

I always wanted a fully decked PBR to terrorize the jet ski's on lake Carlyle...

Occasionally a PBR turns up at a marine auction. They have usually
been "sporterized" but I did see one that was still pretty "navy
looking". I doubt the .50s were real but who knows. You can get a
transferrable M2 for the price of a decent Kia. Same with the M-60s
but I doubt you can have the 40mm launcher.

If I had the money and a little more water in the river, it might be a
fun toy tho. There are guys who run bigger, "draftier" (a PBR will run
in 2-3' of water) boats here so if you watched your days it would be
doable.
I imagine a PBR will go anywhere Wayne's Sea Ray will go and he got up
here.

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On Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:11:03 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:11:32 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

I always wanted a fully decked PBR to terrorize the jet ski's on lake Carlyle...

Occasionally a PBR turns up at a marine auction. They have usually
been "sporterized" but I did see one that was still pretty "navy
looking". I doubt the .50s were real but who knows. You can get a
transferrable M2 for the price of a decent Kia. Same with the M-60s
but I doubt you can have the 40mm launcher.

If I had the money and a little more water in the river, it might be a
fun toy tho. There are guys who run bigger, "draftier" (a PBR will run
in 2-3' of water) boats here so if you watched your days it would be
doable.
I imagine a PBR will go anywhere Wayne's Sea Ray will go and he got up
here.

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With a bit of help from the tide and some local knowledge regarding
the secret channel markers. :-)