(Bob Ross on bass) ;)

Dammit! I'm so gullible I watched the whole video trying to confirm it was Bob Ross. Turns out it's actually Jim Morrison.



No, not that Jim Morrison. The other one.

there's another one ?!

Heh...I thought he looked kinda like Keith Whitley.

Hurricane force winds, full load, buttoned up roof and sides, easy to see why it went down.

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Eighty Japanese midget submarines in dry dock at Kure, Japan.

Those damn things showed up everywhere, Pearl Harbor, Attu and Kiska, China. Instead of starting a war they should have sold those things to Escobar, El Chapo, and El Mayo. :haha:

That is awesome!

And I thought Glatt's home-built wooden kayak was awesome:

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Do a beer roll in that!

Pretty cool!

Imagine how awkward it is for him to get in and out with nothing on the deck to put his weight on to steady himself.

This has to be the shortest tugboat going, it works down around Chesapeake Bay. The only thing I could find on the web was a couple pictures and it's current position/speed. I'd love to know the horsepower and draft.
My buddy took the first picture and the second came from the web.

That self propelled bobber is pretty cool.

Someone sent me some specs but no horsepower rating.
Year 2012, length 25.5 ft (7.8m), depth 6 ft (1.8m) width 16 ft (4.9m), Gross tonnage 16, net tonnage 13.

In the background behind the green sign is a WW II concrete ship.

Got the horsepower on this one...

Amazing!
First vid an auction ad, 2nd running a maybe smaller engine, 3rd vintage record run.
Couldn't find a sound vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yArx9xKLWo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F03jwW_6r4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bURCqvG9dPY

Roger Stone?!?!? @6:03???

W. T. F.

???????

LUST!

That's not a boat, that's one of the prettiest cars ever built.
1963, a buddy of my class president pulls up for a party. Black XKE with the top up. out rolls a 5'7" 300 lb guy in ski pants and sweater, followed by TWO women of playmate quality. A vivid illustration of the power of money. Good grief.

I've owned two Jaguars over fifty years, Leno has a roomful.

So how many "playmates" have you attracted with the Jags? :haha:

Living the good life...

Go fast Howard Hughes style...

Whoooaaa....

Okay, there is a power boat I approve of.

Heeeere's Boaty [/Ed McMahon]

Three deck barges delivering new cars up and down major rivers. The first company doing this was started in 1915, and these Fords in the picture are early 1950's.

Do you suppose they hired local young people to drive them?
A great job, if so.

When I first saw photos of these auto barges, I thought of The Golden Ray which half-capsized some months back and has disappeared from the news if you don't live in coastal Georgia.
It carried thousands of vehicles and the plan to right the ship has been abandoned.
What will happen is probably similar to the dismantling of the Tricolor in the English Channel five years ago. It was an auto carrier of about the same size, also tipped halfway over on its port side in just a little bit deeper water.

If you have a spare half-hour or so, this video is a simply astounding account of the operation. Saws and pulleys, imagination and guts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENOJBLVgjw

That was amazing, the pictures of the cut section showed all those cars cross sectioned at different points of the cars.

Wearing out one hull at a time...

Boats for most people are toys unlike pro fishermen and such.
Since they are usually Dad's toy many of the names a basically Dad Jokes.
Over 5000 yachts registered under “Carpe Diem,” sometimes translated as Seas the Day. :facepalm:

"Unsinkable II"!

That gave me pause also, but I suppose it could have been sold or stolen, or maybe his ex-wife owns it. I got a kick out of Wood Too and Wood Not.

I think he stole the design from the Klingons:

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Boats. And cars. And everything else in Japan tsunami. Awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XvFFfgXwnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkXmieHhPp4

If you have enough water everything in mobile.
I'd seen a lot of footage of the water coming in but very little of it going out again.

Imagine sitting in you porta-potty sized ice fishing shack and peek out the window to this...

Good time to already be on the toilet.

Cuz first you're gonna say it, and then you're gonna do it.



Imagine seeing that thing drifting at ya outta the fog.

What were they thinking?

Somebody had money to burn...

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The Golden Sahara is a show car Barris built for Jim Skonzakes in Ohio.

Boat people, how much does 990 feet of that chain weigh?

About a fuckton/foot, given the apparent scale of the picture. Wow.

I saw the chain on the USS Hornet carrier in Alameda a few years ago; best part of the tour.
This is the Ford, brand new; 136# links are "light weight technology":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W52Cx55aLk

And a nice rope, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEt2REyWGvc

I looked at another anchoring video which had some interesting comments.

Aha, so that's why they need near 1,000 ft of chain. :idea:

Three years ago, I was on a small motor boat that anchored off the Florida Keys. The anchor got wedged under the lip of a large rock and moving around didn't release it. We could see it, since the water was only 15 feet deep or so. And so one of the guys dove down to release it.

Come think of it, we slept in that morning and got the boat captain nobody else wanted. He wasn't very good at putting the boat where he wanted it.

When a boat don't boat no mo...

No problem...

This one just sold for $77,000 which is not outrageous for the size...

A retracting top and roll up (figure of speech, actually electric) windows is unique...

1400 hours! Is that a typo? That's almost 9 months working full time. It better sell for $77k when that much time was spent just on the dashboard.

No it's not a typo. He wanted a perfect fit and it became an obsession. He put it together and took it apart dozens of times.