I'm going to the U.K. next week, I'll have to arrange a visit and see Charlie Parson's spiffy little craft.
About Alan Hale Jr, his old man was no slouch in the movies. You've all seen "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn? There's many other good ones. Acting ran in the family I guess.
40mph! Steam Powered on water
Just about every year there is a club of hobby steamboater with wood hulls that meet on the Erie Canal every year.Last year was Waterford NY
http://www.reliablesteam.com/RSE/RSEfaqs.html
Getting back on topic: Some people call this a ship
but I think it's of a size that 'Wooden Boat' would recognize as being in its scope...
Penny Trains Think fast! And no fair googling! What's the skipper's name? I'll give you a hint, it's not Boaty McBoatface!
Think fast! And no fair googling! What's the skipper's name? I'll give you a hint, it's not Boaty McBoatface!
Jonas Grumby. I remember the series premiere. Yeah, I'm that old!
Firelock76Well that's good to know 54Light, Gilligan and the Skipper may be gone, but good old Minnow sails on!
http://www.gilligansisle.com/minnow.html
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Well that's good to know 54Light, Gilligan and the Skipper may be gone, but good old Minnow sails on!
I love "Wooden Boat." A few years ago I was in a plant in London, Ontario where they have CAD machines making patterns for large pump castings for the oil fields in Alberta. Using many layers of wood glued together, the machines are in an area walled off with plexiglass and they carve away at the wood until a perfect pattern is finished. Fascinating to watch! I said to the guy, "You ought to pick up a copy of Wooden Boat and put this junk to some good use." He was amused.
A few years ago there was an article in it about the boat, "The Minnow," and yes it's the exact one you're thinking about. In the opening of the show where the boat is leaving the harbour, that is the one they wrote about. It's in Vancouver and fully restored and is so damned gorgeous it's hard to grasp! Really, it's that fine and I wish I could see it in real life. Old wooden boats have a nobility to them that no other small boat can match and if they're powered by steam, well!
If I may rock the boat, I would not conclude that it is improper to refer to a ship as a boat. Definitions often overlap and terms apply to more than one specific item. Up on Lake Superior, they run “ore boats.”
Submarines are definitely boats, confirmed by my nephew currently an officer in the Submarine Service.
Great Lakes bulk carriers of all sizes are also boats.
Well a canoe's a boat, but sometimes it depend who's in it.
For example, when my friend Shotgun Charlie's in a canoe, he makes it look like the battleship New Jersey. Charlie's a BIG guy!
So....what about the canoe in my attic? Linkanoe to be precise.
Oh, no doubt the CNO made the change as it's a bit inappropriate to call todays subs, which are the size of World War One battleships, "boats," however I based my statement on a documentary I watched about America's present-day submariners. There was a statement made I never forgot...
"Even after they retire, their minds are never far from the boats."
Just so everyone else knows, when the US Navy's sub service was founded over 100 years ago, the first subs were classified as "small craft" and flew boat flags accordingly. As opposed to the (then) 46 star flag flown by the big ships, boat flags had only 13 stars. Boat flags became obsolete with the Wilson administration, all craft flew the 48 star flag afterward, but the "boat" name for the subs stuck.
tomikawaTT Firelock76 There's some cool steam-propelled boat videos on You Tube, and by boat I mean small craft. NEVER call a big ship a boat! Submarines maybe, it's traditional, but not ships. As of a half-century or so ago, submarines are officially, "Ships," by order of the Chief of Naval Operations. Quick touchstone - a ship can carry a boat in standard davits. Chuck (Former USMMR cadet)
Firelock76 There's some cool steam-propelled boat videos on You Tube, and by boat I mean small craft. NEVER call a big ship a boat! Submarines maybe, it's traditional, but not ships.
There's some cool steam-propelled boat videos on You Tube, and by boat I mean small craft. NEVER call a big ship a boat!
Submarines maybe, it's traditional, but not ships.
As of a half-century or so ago, submarines are officially, "Ships," by order of the Chief of Naval Operations.
Quick touchstone - a ship can carry a boat in standard davits.
Chuck (Former USMMR cadet)
Electric Boat division of General Dynamics is the builder of submarines.
http://www.gdeb.com/
http://www.woodenboat.com/ Kalmbach mags should buy these guys they are as gung ho as the train guys
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