On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:33:18 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 05:16:54 GMT, "Bill McKee"
wrote:


"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Neat stories about their construction, too, from my dad. He worked at
Newport News building them, until he was conscripted in WWII.

Liberty ships were steel, as well as the Victory ships. My dad spent the
war building them in Richmond, CA and my mom spent the time as a nurse at
the shipyard hospital. The hospital became the first Kaiser hospital. I
remember the small stamped models that we had at home. Probably worth a lot
of money now. First boat I got to pilot.


I have to assume that he saw what he saw...

Apparently, as steel became scarce they, experimented with other forms
of material. One of the stories he recounted was the, to him,
excessive number of hours spent in vibrating the mix in the mold....
sometimes two shifts. He always expected to see the hull come out with
aggregate on the bottom and sand and cement on top.... though he never
saw one come out that way.

I assume vibrating a steel ship would just be loud....

That same technique was used on Hoover Dam. When we were out there a
few years ago, one of the documentaries we saw mentioned that
sometimes whole gangs of ten/fifteen men would continuously vibrate
the cement mixture for as long as 36 hours.

Shortwave Sportfishing ) wrote:
: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:33:18 GMT, Gene Kearns
: wrote:

: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 05:16:54 GMT, "Bill McKee"
: wrote:
:
:
: "Gene Kearns" wrote in message
: . ..
:
: Neat stories about their construction, too, from my dad. He worked at
: Newport News building them, until he was conscripted in WWII.
:
: Liberty ships were steel, as well as the Victory ships. My dad spent the
: war building them in Richmond, CA and my mom spent the time as a nurse at
: the shipyard hospital. The hospital became the first Kaiser hospital. I
: remember the small stamped models that we had at home. Probably worth a lot
: of money now. First boat I got to pilot.
:
:
: I have to assume that he saw what he saw...
:
: Apparently, as steel became scarce they, experimented with other forms
: of material. One of the stories he recounted was the, to him,
: excessive number of hours spent in vibrating the mix in the mold....
: sometimes two shifts. He always expected to see the hull come out with
: aggregate on the bottom and sand and cement on top.... though he never
: saw one come out that way.
:
: I assume vibrating a steel ship would just be loud....

: That same technique was used on Hoover Dam. When we were out there a
: few years ago, one of the documentaries we saw mentioned that
: sometimes whole gangs of ten/fifteen men would continuously vibrate
: the cement mixture for as long as 36 hours.

Any application of cement requires vibrating it to get the air bubbles out
for a smooth consistant pore.
Back to my original posting. I guess nobody knows of any boats that were
scuttled and left in a field somewhere. I'd like to get one about 50'LOA.
I just missed out on a deal last may on a 50' coastal cruiser, nice boat.
It had a new coat of bottom and hull paint, engine was end of life, no
interior, decking, or rigging. It would have been a big job to refit it.
If anyone knew of something similar I'd like to hear about it.

Tom

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On 2 Aug 2005 09:35:11 -0800, (Thomas D.
Ireland) wrote:



Any application of cement requires vibrating it to get the air bubbles out
for a smooth consistant pore.
Back to my original posting. I guess nobody knows of any boats that were
scuttled and left in a field somewhere. I'd like to get one about 50'LOA.
I just missed out on a deal last may on a 50' coastal cruiser, nice boat.
It had a new coat of bottom and hull paint, engine was end of life, no
interior, decking, or rigging. It would have been a big job to refit it.
If anyone knew of something similar I'd like to hear about it.

I think your freakin' nuts, but that's me. :)

Heading out for the evening tide and that world record striper.

I'll let you know how I caught it when I get back.

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 2 Aug 2005 09:35:11 -0800, (Thomas D.
Ireland) wrote:



Any application of cement requires vibrating it to get the air bubbles out
for a smooth consistant pore.
Back to my original posting. I guess nobody knows of any boats that were
scuttled and left in a field somewhere. I'd like to get one about 50'LOA.
I just missed out on a deal last may on a 50' coastal cruiser, nice boat.
It had a new coat of bottom and hull paint, engine was end of life, no
interior, decking, or rigging. It would have been a big job to refit it.
If anyone knew of something similar I'd like to hear about it.

I think your freakin' nuts, but that's me. :)

Heading out for the evening tide and that world record striper.

I'll let you know how I caught it when I get back.

2nd that. Is still a few Ferro-cement boats setting in yards and fields
around the SF Bay area. I went fishing on Sunday. Couple of nice rock cod
and couple of nice ling cod. through back 3 legal size lings, and lost
either a large Ling or Halibut when the line got sliced by a tooth. I think
from the way it fought it was probably an 18-20# halli.