Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

One of my fishing buds used to work for Victory Lines and ran a
retro-fitted Onasis era 750' tanker on a race track Baltimore to
Caracas to Houston to Baltimore and he had one of those Butternuts
clamped to the maneuvering side rail on the bridge.



One of the hams passing through Charleston from time to time was Larry,
KI7GF, who was one of the masters of SeaLand "Performance", a Dutch-made
950' containership I got the golden tour of. (7 cyl, 38,800hp, ONE
engine, no transmission, ONE BIG HONKIN' SCREW!)

Larry used a Butternut rigged to the top of the bridge with the Yaesu rig
on his desk in the master's stateroom. Worked great and I set him up on
packet/APRS many, many years ago. I've lost track of him, now, but used
to track him on 20M APRS unless he was chatting away on the phone bands.

The first time I was in his stateroom, I had to use the head. When I
came out of the captain's private head, I had an amused look on my face.
He asked me what was so funny. I said, "I'm an old enlisted sailor. Do
you know what they would have done to me if they'd caught me coming out
of the captain's head?!" Then he told me he was enlisted, too, when he
was in the Navy. Too funny....



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