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Great Trip!
On 1/15/17 7:45 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:25:57 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 22:09:22 -0500, wrote: We were still working on a virtual zero budget but 2 of the guys worked at International Harvester, fixing the same 6-71s the 40 footer had. They managed to come up with all the parts we needed and get the engines going. There were several handy guys around to fix the rest of the broken stuff. I got my "ride" by rewiring the boat. === Long live the DD 6-71s. We've put over 6,000 hours on our pair in the last 13 years or so, 48,000 nautical miles at last count. I don't know how many hours these guys had on them but this was a 20 year old Coast Guard boat. Fortunately the BM1 and the MM1 fixed these things for a living and worked in a shop at IH. They did talk Norfolk into hauling and painting it before we got it and it did make it up to DC although it may have limped in on one engine. (rumors vary). It took us a few weekends to get it going and god only knows how many hours the guys spent on the engines but it was running good when I left. If the CG had let me stay on the boat, I may have retired from the reserve but some bean counter decided I was supposed to be in the electronics unit, not the "deck" unit. I left shortly after that. Wow...you and the lads protected the mighty Anacostia River from...from what? |
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Great Trip!
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:48:42 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 1/15/17 7:45 PM, wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 15:25:57 -0500, wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 22:09:22 -0500, wrote: We were still working on a virtual zero budget but 2 of the guys worked at International Harvester, fixing the same 6-71s the 40 footer had. They managed to come up with all the parts we needed and get the engines going. There were several handy guys around to fix the rest of the broken stuff. I got my "ride" by rewiring the boat. === Long live the DD 6-71s. We've put over 6,000 hours on our pair in the last 13 years or so, 48,000 nautical miles at last count. I don't know how many hours these guys had on them but this was a 20 year old Coast Guard boat. Fortunately the BM1 and the MM1 fixed these things for a living and worked in a shop at IH. They did talk Norfolk into hauling and painting it before we got it and it did make it up to DC although it may have limped in on one engine. (rumors vary). It took us a few weekends to get it going and god only knows how many hours the guys spent on the engines but it was running good when I left. If the CG had let me stay on the boat, I may have retired from the reserve but some bean counter decided I was supposed to be in the electronics unit, not the "deck" unit. I left shortly after that. Wow...you and the lads protected the mighty Anacostia River from...from what? The godless communists of course! The *******s never made it past the Wilson Bridge on our watch .... unless they were elected. Realistically we did assist a number of boaters on the river, hauled out hazards to navigation other things the other agencies did not care to do. With no LE powers at all we were just putting a friendly face on the Coast Guard. We were only there to help. (no boardings, no inspections, no hassles) |
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