Don White wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:26:27 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:40:55 -0400, hk wrote:

I'd like to know how a ship is supposed to avoid being hit by a
wave-hopping, supersonic missile "steered" by a couple of guys via a
video camera on the weapon and a laptop computer. That's where
anti-ship
missile technology is headed.
Why waste a perfectly good missile when you could do the same thing
with say, a radio controlled/GPS guided Parker ?
Your barge would hold a lot more explosives, and make a much more
colorful
boom. Especially if you were on it.
Harry, you are in the area. Try to see how close you can get to a Navy
ship of any kind entering the Bay.
My brother, and my niece, have a great story about that.

It's highly amusing - especially the part about the .50 cals pointed
at him from some highly motivated sailors and Coasties. :)

Almost happened to me right here in my home port.
&%^$& 'merican nuke sub was docked at the Bonaventure Dock at the Shearwater
Naval Base... where my yacht club is/was.
I sailed right up to their little floatong barrier boom and a yankee sailor
came running out of a little hut armed with a weapon waiving me off.
If I didn't have the wife on board.......




You know how those guys in uniform are...they think their toys are special.