Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:10:01 -0600
Reply-To: John Klun <jklun@GJ.NET>
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From: John Klun <jklun@GJ.NET>
Subject: Re: Tiico conversion
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David-
Do you have a life...? :)
I did my time in the Navy also- spent some time in storms off Hatteras- those were
not pleasant. Got caught in a storm off Cape Henry Light in VA in a 58' Mike
boat. It was so rough that night that I heard on the radio the Coast Guard refuse
to come out because it was too rough! Oh yeah, we were searching for an Army LARC
that went down with 3 aboard. 2 were picked up and the other one was found 80
miles down the coast off NC 3 days later. Yep! Them were the days... (By the
way- I used live in NH up to 2 1/2 years ago.)
David Beierl wrote:
> At 15:13 10/26/2000, John Klun wrote:
> >David was probably in the Navy or connected to the Maritime industry-
> >After all,
> >he lives in Rhode Island and you can almost see the ocean from anywhere in the
> >state... ;-)
>
> Well, I *did* spend about six years in the Navy (as a Hospital Corpsman) --
> but I never went to sea. I've been to sea in small boats a little. Mostly
> I'm interested. I spent much of 1989 and '90 listening to SITOR (ShIp's
> Telex Over Radio) because it was interesting and I wasn't good for much
> else at the time. I have several hundred pins in a map where I could log a
> position, and a couple thousand more intercepts without positions. I once
> heard the QE II order 60 dozen sets of Wedgewood Clipper for delivery on
> arrival in NYC four days hence -- figured they must have taken quite a
> wave, as that's enough china to serve about two-thirds of the
> passengers. Also a fairly frantic telex from a self-positioning drilling
> rig whose computers had gone nuts and were driving the thing around in
> circles. And some other neat stuff. Dropped a dime once on a ship that
> was planning to flush its cargo tanks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and
> *particularly* didn't want the Canadian CG to know...tsk tsk.
> <g> Generally the more interesting the telex, the worse the reception.
>
> david
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
> http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
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