funnel cakes as well

Vincent boats? Not only your boat, but your little lawnmower too. Muhahahaha.

Washington bids farewell to an old destroyer

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So long USS Barry (DD-933), we hardly knew ye.

It's too bad we're losing her. You could spend an overnight on her, and while I never did, our Boy Scout troop spent one or two nights on board over the years.

That would've been cool, especially for a kid.

I thought they were just renaming it the USS Barack.

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For the boats, cleaning the Grand Canal. Bet that smells wonderful. :greenface

Everybody gets a yacht...

Kayak completes solo voyage from Australia to New Zealand...

...sans kayaker.

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In days of old when a sailor was keelhauled, he would be tied to ropes going under the ship and dragged from one side to the other. Fast enough so he might be able to hold his breath, but they dragged him across those barnacles, squirts, and mussels. :thepain:

But hey, no worries. :rolleyes:

The fleet...

At 790 ft long, with an 88 ft beam and 32,000 GRT, she was the biggest ship in the world for 5 years.
Compared to today's 1188 ft long, 217 ft beam, 227,000 ton monsters, that's tiny.

When you absolutely, positively, want to get there quickly...
but absolutely, positively, don't have to get there.