anyone know anything about submarines?
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Yes but that subject gets too "deep" for this column. That was a very "tender" way to change the subject, however.
My wifes dad was the CO of one of those things. Out there for 20 or so years. Waddaya want 2 know. Just ask & I'l put her on. Most gals want to go to Portland or SF for a night out...perhaps a show at the Geary and dinner at some cool place. Linda wants to go see the sub at f warf and have a hotdog. Then go back through the sub. Did I luck out or what....lo maint chick. Oh yeh, a newer type sub at Portland, cigar shaped. 10 nos down fron the Nautilus. Cool boat.
This is like a geometry class I once had. Start out talking geometry, 10 minutes later it was motorcycles (teacher was in Lee Marvins gang in Wild One), then on to boats etc. Great class.
Brian, we have hit almost every subject, I am supprised you didn't bring up small arms...are bazookas and canons small arms?
This small enough for you Douglas. Perhaps this bring this awsome thread to its final demise? Image Unavailable, Please Login
Dang! You've hit upon the killer app that all phone suppliers have been looking for. Integrated OBD II reader with check engine light reset. All the gearheads will have to have one. PLUS, the exclusive red Ferrari phone with SD 3 interface. Man, I wish I had thought of it.
Learned to H20 ski at Tahoe behind a mahogany 16 ft Mercury. Had a Grey Marine 6 banger and was a decent ski boat. That was 1957....think most of the boats there were wood. Cant remember seeing 'tupperware'. Used to chum Seagraves(Ski-Run) Marina for chicks. Haul them over to Emerald Bay and teach them how to ski. Could still do that before ranger dick shut it down. Bubba, the Galviston mus boys brought theit restored B-17 to Muskogee 1995 and it was used in the movie Tuskgee Airmen. Blinky and his crew kept us all rolling on the floor with their Southern Boy antics. Fun deal
I was into Mahogany for a period, was close friends with the son of a man who had 50 or 60 extraordinary old classics there on Lake Tahoe. My last woodie was a 17 foot 1948 Chris Craft Delux Runabout with a Hercules 6. Nice boat, just a lot of maintenance, kinda like a Ferrari.
By God Doug, you have been around. The guy was Allen Furth. He had just about one of everything. Was a big gun attorney for SP out of San Francisco. Went to the Big Lake in the Sky in the early 90's and the collection was sold off. Was your Delux the model with the air cleaner/spark arrestor hump on the cover?
I still kick my self, I screwed up a deal where I had bought in principal a 1930 up-swept deck Chris Craft with a Lycoming V12 in her belly. That engine scared me though, what would you do if it ever broke! I screwed up the deal by also trying to by his Cigarette, the boat owners curator thought I wasn't also interested in the Chris....
Been around a bit, I consider Alan Furth and his son who has also past, the very best of friends. My Cigarette belonged to Alan, why I wont ever sell it. The Cigarette is also well known on the lake, Fast Freight, has a tripple air horn from a freight train on the fore deck My 48 Chris was a single carb engine so it didn't have the hump on the engine hatch. The tripple carbed engines had to have the hump. The 1930 Chris that I was in the process of buying was also Alan's, If you are on the lake and see Millie Millie Wi (spelled wrong, Hawaiian name) that's her! Alan was an attorney, President then Chairman of the Board of SP
Doug, what happened to Andy? Guess that just leaves Allison. Hmmm. Never though of it before but was she named after the engine? You gotta tell Steve about Alan and the air sea rescue boats.
Andy passed away about 5 years ago of colon cancer, I think Ginny still is alive and probably living in the same apartment on Lake Merrit
Do you happen to have a pix of your cigarette? Like to see it. Brian my daughter Allison is named after the eng. Have a pix somewhere of her as a baby, in the turned over wing of the P-40, while it was in my garrage for hyd and electric work. Doug, you shoud have gotten that Liberty powered raised deck (?) Chris. Very nice machine.
I don't know about Allison's name, she was around befor Alan started collecting wooden boats, (mid 60's) unless one of his 2 Korean PT boats had Allisons in it.
These pictures are of a similar boat. Mine Cigarette is one of very very few to have twin 454's, it was ordered by a factious company supposedly in Stockton Ca. and was confiscated by the DEA off the coast of San Diego running drugs. It is beige with blue sides, and very large letters over an arrow that says Fast Freight Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
