Weather for the 4th..Looks questionable

[RickB]

dwhatty wrote:
*Ooh! Like the classic woodie. ... And what the heck is that boat (?) in the fifth picture?

*It is a real classic woodie, a vintage navy minesweeper..*

Several have been converted to beautiful yachts with stainless steel and bronze main engines and bronze windlasses and anchors.

 

[FlyWright]

That minesweeper has been there at least a dozen years. I've never seen it move, never seen anyone on it.

 

[Moonstruck]

FlyWright wrote:
That minesweeper has been there at least a dozen years. I've never seen it move, never seen anyone on it.

*My brother-in-law was the captain of a mine sweeper.* He said it was an easy job because any ship can be a mine sweeper once.* He lived to tell about it, died a natural death,*and was buried at sea.

 

[RickB]

FlyWright wrote:That minesweeper has been there at least a dozen years. I've never seen it move, never seen anyone on it.

*It might have come home to die. Fulton shipyard in Antioch built a couple of MSOs (which that appears to be) as well as other coastal minesweepers during WW2.

*

 

[markpierce]

Pineapple Girl wrote:
I took a few random photos while there.

*I like the look of the woodie slicing through the waves.* The Coot ungracefully "shoves" the water aside.

 

[skipperdude]

Mark, She may shove the water aside but she does it like a man on a mission nothing is gonna stop her.

SD