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01-23-2015, 09:09 AM
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#1501
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pilothouse king
It's tea alright, but the kind of tea served at Ma Browns in Negril!
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Ted's too!!
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01-23-2015, 06:56 PM
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Senior Member
City: Vancouver BC
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 302
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Whale Rider
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01-23-2015, 07:22 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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This is not so much an interesting boat as an interesting attempt at a boat. It's Huckin's entry into the compeition for the Navy contracts for PT boats in 1940. Huckins was and I guess still is, a premier designer and manufacturer of power cruisers and yachts. Their work, so far as I've been given to understand, is top notch.
This same quality and attention to detail went into the PT boat they designed and built, but the design was not very supportive of the mission. For one thing, the boat could carry only two torpedoes instead of four. Also, during the competition, while the Huckins exhibited the best ride, it broke numerous hull stringers in the bilge.
In the end, the Navy ordered just one squadron of Huckins boats and they were immediately relegated to training and harbor patrol duties. In one testimonial I read, a trainee at the PT school at Melville, Rhode Island, complained bitterly about how lousy the Huckins boats were to operate and train on.
This was one time when Huckin's experience and reputation didn't help the company out.
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01-23-2015, 07:56 PM
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#1504
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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Deer Isle, Maine
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01-23-2015, 08:18 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dwhatty
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Haven't posted anything about it although I'm aware of it. I'm not a particular fan of the Higgins PT boats. I much prefer the Elco which was a better boat in a lot of ways. The story I am writing takes place on an Elco and all the vets I've interviewed were on Elcos. My wife and I have ridden on a restored Higgins, the one near Portland which is powered by its original type engines, the Packard 4M-2500. This was the main reason for going--- I wanted to hear, feel, and smell those engines in operation and learn something about running them. The Elco and Higgins PTs used the same type and number of engines although the engine arrangements in the hull were different.
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01-25-2015, 10:27 PM
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#1506
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Guru
City: UMR MM283
Vessel Name: Northern Lights II
Vessel Model: Bayliner 3870
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,357
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Ron on Northern Lights II
I don't like making plans for the day because the word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.
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01-25-2015, 11:14 PM
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#1507
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by River Cruiser
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Too Cool! Thanks
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01-28-2015, 12:45 AM
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#1508
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Senior Member
City: San Diego and Gabriola
Vessel Name: Skookum Maru
Vessel Model: Ed Monk design #1924
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 228
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TACONITE, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is now for sale, USD $2,495,000 asking. For that price you get not one but two Atlas Imperial diesels!
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01-28-2015, 04:18 PM
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#1509
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,738
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Ron those guys must be very strong. Getting that hull up and out of the water should take some force.
Wonder how they achieve such good balance. I've ridden a recumbent bicycle and in that case it's just there.
QB what's "imperial" about the Atlas engines?
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North Western Washington State USA
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01-28-2015, 05:52 PM
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Guru
City: Flattop Islands
Vessel Name: Blackfish
Vessel Model: custom
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 724
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Quote:
Originally Posted by manyboats
QB what's "imperial" about the Atlas engines?
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http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas-Imperial
Was the combining of two engine builders. Wonder if the Taconite engines were assembled in New Westminster?
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01-30-2015, 09:30 AM
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#1512
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rustybarge
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Rusty - I watched video. Looks like an OK boat. Seems a bit too open while still being somewhat cramped in sleeping/head area. Does the Brittish commenter's mention of "sharp drive" off engines mean "straight drive"?
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01-30-2015, 02:35 PM
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#1513
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Guru
City: I need a bigger boat!
Vessel Model: Cheetah 25' Powercat.
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 925
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Art
Rusty - I watched video. Looks like an OK boat. Seems a bit too open while still being somewhat cramped in sleeping/head area. Does the Brittish commenter's mention of "sharp drive" off engines mean "straight drive"?
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It's says it's an outdrive in the blurb, the commentator says it's a sharp drive....
...in fact it's standard shaft drive/p bracket/ rudder/ inboard!
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02-01-2015, 12:50 PM
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#1514
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Guru
City: UMR MM283
Vessel Name: Northern Lights II
Vessel Model: Bayliner 3870
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,357
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Quote:
Originally Posted by manyboats
Ron those guys must be very strong. Getting that hull up and out of the water should take some force.
Wonder how they achieve such good balance. I've ridden a recumbent bicycle and in that case it's just there.
QB what's "imperial" about the Atlas engines?
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I think being muscular, young, limber and durable have a lot to do with it. Give them guys another 40 years and they'll be wondering how they ever did it.
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Ron on Northern Lights II
I don't like making plans for the day because the word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.
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02-02-2015, 06:01 PM
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LRC58Fan
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Would make interesting SF Bay Charter boat! Larry Flint's gals could make nake-movies with uniformed men in the bunks. Sea Slice having top speed of 30 knots, with 11,112 gallons of gas... efficient nmpg must mean round trip to Farallon Islands... no prob!
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02-02-2015, 06:11 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,540
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Greetings,
OK. So I may have missed it but what would the range be?
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RTF
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02-02-2015, 06:25 PM
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Guru
City: Melbourne, FL
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 1,731
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Wow, Sea Slice would be a bargain at $180,000 except it's beam is 55' which means no way to get it docked for any length of time... Imagine the cost to dry-dock it, since there is no other way to get it out of the water for service.
Also, draft is 11-14' so I guess that cuts out going to the Bahamas.
Featured Yachts for Sale | Pacific Coast Yachts
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02-02-2015, 07:38 PM
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#1519
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Senior Member
City: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Vessel Name: Stout
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 42
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 188
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Looks a little big to single hand and too big for our boathouse. But I would love to take it out for a spin!
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02-02-2015, 08:20 PM
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#1520
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,196
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11000 gallons for fuel is ok, but only 400 water?! Of course one could swap out the two MTU's for a couple of outboards and get a futuristic live-aboard for pennies!
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"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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