The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62769   Message #1016181
Posted By: InOBU
10-Sep-03 - 07:54 AM
Thread Name: Can you really raise a ship with hot air
Subject: RE: Can you really raise a ship with hot air
Lawn Chair Larry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????????

F$%K'S Sake! Don!!! Putting aside that this was a joke about the Golden Hind thread... I not only spent 11 years as a boat builder before my present occupation(!?)... but I have raised a sunken skipjack from the east river, with one other fellow, in mid winter, without a wet suit, by going aboard and unshakeling the throat halyard so we could use it to carreen the vessle in a slip using a car... the water was below freezing, and I also had to cast off lines so we could ease her up the slip to do this, interesting feeling, feeling your self in a race with the sense of dieing from the cold, your brain is telling your limbs to run at one speed but they respond ten times slower... not really an lawn chair event, unfortunately.

Here in downtown New York, there aren't that many lawns.... could use one, chair and all.

One day, I will take a day off, and I hope when the day comes, some one (Don?) will lend me a lawn and a chair!

Keep yer feet dry folkies...

(No offence taken or meant)

Lifeboat Larry