On Oct 24, 3:31*pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGnZxcS7VKA

This one is pretty good if you like Navy ships like I do.
Pause it when it gets to the USS Iowa and note the shockwaves from those
16 incher's!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbIPy...eature=related

Eisboch

I fish next to the Iowa at the Mothball Fleet in the Carquinez Straits.
Amazing how little freeboard the ship has. *Family friend of my parents was
the smallest guy on the Battleship he served on in WW2. *Part of his job was
cleaning the barrels. *They would pull him through the guns with a wire
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The Mothball Fleet is pretty damned impressive! From what I understand
they do a lot of sturgeon fishing around the ships.

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On Oct 24, 3:31 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGnZxcS7VKA

This one is pretty good if you like Navy ships like I do.
Pause it when it gets to the USS Iowa and note the shockwaves from those
16 incher's!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbIPy...eature=related

Eisboch

I fish next to the Iowa at the Mothball Fleet in the Carquinez Straits.
Amazing how little freeboard the ship has. Family friend of my parents was
the smallest guy on the Battleship he served on in WW2. Part of his job
was
cleaning the barrels. They would pull him through the guns with a wire
brush in hand.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The Mothball Fleet is pretty damned impressive! From what I understand
they do a lot of sturgeon fishing around the ships.

Yes, one of the prime Sturgeon areas. One day I landed 5. All undersize,
but was fun. They ran 22-36". The fleet is not that impressive anymore.
Lots have gone to the Breakers, and they want to move more of them, but the
Enviros want the hulls cleaned locally before moving them very far. Used to
be the Glomar Explorer anchored there, and the anchor buoys are still
referred to as the Glomars.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:31:52 -0700, Calif Bill wrote:

I fish next to the Iowa at the Mothball Fleet in the Carquinez Straits.
Amazing how little freeboard the ship has. Family friend of my parents
was the smallest guy on the Battleship he served on in WW2. Part of his
job was cleaning the barrels. They would pull him through the guns with
a wire brush in hand.

He may have been pulling your leg, don't you think? If he wasn't, 16
inch guns or not, that wasn't a job I'd want.

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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:31:52 -0700, Calif Bill wrote:

I fish next to the Iowa at the Mothball Fleet in the Carquinez Straits.
Amazing how little freeboard the ship has. Family friend of my parents
was the smallest guy on the Battleship he served on in WW2. Part of his
job was cleaning the barrels. They would pull him through the guns with
a wire brush in hand.

He may have been pulling your leg, don't you think? If he wasn't, 16
inch guns or not, that wasn't a job I'd want.

Nope, was just a stated fact. Russell was a small guy and was still being
carded in bars at 35 years old. How do you think they cleaned the guns? I
am 6'4" and am not much more than 16" across the shoulders.

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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:31:52 -0700, Calif Bill wrote:

I fish next to the Iowa at the Mothball Fleet in the Carquinez Straits.
Amazing how little freeboard the ship has. Family friend of my parents
was the smallest guy on the Battleship he served on in WW2. Part of his
job was cleaning the barrels. They would pull him through the guns with
a wire brush in hand.

He may have been pulling your leg, don't you think? If he wasn't, 16
inch guns or not, that wasn't a job I'd want.


Didn't they use small boys in that fashion cleaning chimneys in England a
couple hundred years ago?

On Oct 24, 4:54*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGnZxcS7VKA

"nuh? *snort* &*(#^ $&@#^* sarg!