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Launch PT-305!
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 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. === 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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Launch PT-305!
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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