The "survey" thread prompted me to look through the "Show us your boat" thread and I have a question for FF should you happen to see this.
What was your boat originally? You say in your description it was a Navy utility boat. Was it carried on board a ship as a shore boat, Captain's launch, etc? I have always assumed the boats carried on ships tended to be in the 30 to 40 foot range, so perhaps your 50-footer was built specifically for transportation and other duties in a harbor.
I grew up in Hawaii and spent a fair amount of time either on the Pearl Harbor base (my divorced mom dated a submarine commander for awhile in the '60s) or flying over it in the '70s doing touch and goes on the Ford Island runway while earning my various pilot's certificates. So I saw a lot of "just plain boats" plying the waters of Pearl, going back and forth to moored ships, going between various docks, and so on. Would your boat have originally been used for this kind of duty?
-- Edited by Marin at 00:07, 2007-12-06
What was your boat originally? You say in your description it was a Navy utility boat. Was it carried on board a ship as a shore boat, Captain's launch, etc? I have always assumed the boats carried on ships tended to be in the 30 to 40 foot range, so perhaps your 50-footer was built specifically for transportation and other duties in a harbor.
I grew up in Hawaii and spent a fair amount of time either on the Pearl Harbor base (my divorced mom dated a submarine commander for awhile in the '60s) or flying over it in the '70s doing touch and goes on the Ford Island runway while earning my various pilot's certificates. So I saw a lot of "just plain boats" plying the waters of Pearl, going back and forth to moored ships, going between various docks, and so on. Would your boat have originally been used for this kind of duty?
-- Edited by Marin at 00:07, 2007-12-06