JimH wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:


Impressive. Best of luck to your son.

How long is his tour? What are his duties on the ship?

This is scheduled to be a 6 month deployment. They departed Norfolk in
early October. He has been in the Navy for about a year and a half and
has 2 and a half more years of active duty to go. He went to a state
college for a year, then transfered to Mass Maritime Academy for 3 years,
then got the itch for adventure and duty.

He is assigned to an air squadron on the Truman. (VAW 126)

Eisboch


Could be a career for him....who knows. My thanks to your son for serving.



Could be, but I doubt it. He also just got married and I think that
will fill his adventure needs.

Eisboch

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:00:11 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:

I was just reading some information on my son's (Eisboch Jr.) new boat.
Some of the impressive statistics:


Propellers: 4, bronze, 21 feet across

Rudders: 2, each 29 feet by 22 feet

Anchors: 2, each weighing 30 tons

Anchor chains: 2, each 1,041 feet, 684 links, individual link weighs 365
pounds

Distillation plants: Provide 400,000 gallons of fresh water daily from
the sea water, enough to supply 2,000 homes

Toilet paper: 100,000 rolls

Power plant: 2 nuclear reactors that can go 20 years without refueling

Name: USS Harry S. Truman (currently heading for duty in the Persian Gulf)

Eisboch

That's one hell of a lobsta' boat!

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


What I want to know is can you troll for pelagic species off the stern
of that thing? You know, really big marlin? :)

I actually did that once - Army transport to Panama for a joint
training exercise. Ever the fisherman, I had a big Mitchell spinning
reel and some heavy dacron line. One of the Army Quartermasters found
a piece of wood on the ship that looked like an old railing - rigged
up some guides out of nails and went fishing.

Didn't catch anything, but the Army types thought it was pretty funny.
Even the Captain came down to take a turn on the reel. :)

I think I have a picture of that around here in the old timey files -
I'll see if I can't find it.

Later,

Tom

Sometime I'll tell the tale of my close encounter with a Courts-Martial.

Eisboch

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:10:43 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


What I want to know is can you troll for pelagic species off the stern
of that thing? You know, really big marlin? :)

I actually did that once - Army transport to Panama for a joint
training exercise. Ever the fisherman, I had a big Mitchell spinning
reel and some heavy dacron line. One of the Army Quartermasters found
a piece of wood on the ship that looked like an old railing - rigged
up some guides out of nails and went fishing.

Didn't catch anything, but the Army types thought it was pretty funny.
Even the Captain came down to take a turn on the reel. :)

I think I have a picture of that around here in the old timey files -
I'll see if I can't find it.

Sometime I'll tell the tale of my close encounter with a Courts-Martial.

Heh - maybe if we ever get together some time over dinner.

I served on a Courts Martial once. Idiot defendant went with a trial
of his peers rather than having a Court made up of officers.

Dumbass.

Later,

Tom

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:33:25 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:52:04 -0500, DSK wrote:

More info & a picture for the curious
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/USS...n_%28CVN-75%29

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I'm concerned that they seem to be anchored on an all chain rode.

Jax says that is very dangerous, something about catenaries.

:-)

COTK!

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Best wishes for your son's safe and speedy return.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message

Jax says that is very dangerous, something about catenaries.

Catenaries are only a problem around puddy-tats.

"Eisboch" wrote in message news:X62dnROkbKq6FwncRVn-

I was just reading some information on my son's (Eisboch Jr.) new boat.

Name: USS Harry S. Truman (currently heading for duty in the Persian Gulf)

Thanks and Good Luck to Eisboch Jr. God Bless.

Eisboch wrote:
LOL, I was following that discussion. Tell Jax that I emailed his
concerns to the CO of the Truman, but haven't heard anything back yet.

He's probably checking with NAVSEA, Mechanicsburg. Most likely they'll
be in touch at some point. The Navy's wheels grind slowly but
exceedingly fine.

DSK

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
What I want to know is can you troll for pelagic species off the stern
of that thing? You know, really big marlin? :)

I actually did that once - Army transport to Panama for a joint
training exercise. Ever the fisherman, I had a big Mitchell spinning
reel and some heavy dacron line. One of the Army Quartermasters found
a piece of wood on the ship that looked like an old railing - rigged
up some guides out of nails and went fishing.

Didn't catch anything, but the Army types thought it was pretty funny.
Even the Captain came down to take a turn on the reel. :)

I think I have a picture of that around here in the old timey files -
I'll see if I can't find it.


Yep. Can't do it in transit because those things MOVE... generally 20+
knots. But when the ship is on station and just hanging around, it would
be possible to troll off the fantail. Not sure the carriers ever hang
around going slow, they are too valuable & vulnerable a target... makes
the Navy nervous. However if they did, you could. It would a problem
standing so high above the water... you'd probably be at least 50' up!

The tin can I was on spent a lot of time making slow circles waiting for
something to happen. Fishing off the fantail was quite popular. I don't
recall any marlins being dragged aboard, but did see a few dolphin and a
lot of sharks. Delicious.

DSK