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  • Gerarddm
    #RESIST
    • Feb 2010
    • 32531
    #1

    Drag racing pachyderms

    It's not the Bosporus, but we do get our share of marine traffic here on Admiralty Inlet.

    Cruise liners coming to and fro from Seattle come by; we call them the parade of pachyderms. Usually they come by a half mile apart or so. Here are two drag racing up to the turn at Port Townsend; the outer one was doing maybe five knots more than the inner one>

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    Gerard>
    Albuquerque, NM

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    • David G
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2003
      • 89912
      #2
      Re: Drag racing pachyderms

      Have seen similar at Astoria. It's disconcerting.

      I have a friend/client/supplier who is preparing a large motor-sailor for a circumnavigation. I did some work on it, but she and her parents have done almost everything. They picked it because it is a stout boat, stoutly built. One day when I was aboard looking at the next project, she asked me how many tons I thought the boat was. I guessed. It turned out to be almost twice that much. She then showed me a core from a hole-saw hole they'd cut in the deck to run some new mechanicals. The foredeck was over 5" thick, iirc. They were also kicking around potential names, and asked if I had any suggestions. I offered 'Packy' (for pachyderm... and also in honor of a long-term Portland Zoo resident). I don't think it was their fave.
      David G
      Harbor Woodworks
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      "It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)

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        • CWSmith
          New Hampshire
          • Nov 2008
          • 44103
          #3
          Re: Drag racing pachyderms

          I drove past the port at Cocoa Beach, Florida last week. Boy, are some of those cruise boats big!
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            • skuthorp
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2002
              • 73678
              #4
              Re: Drag racing pachyderms

              I live in horror of the day Anne says "How about we go on a cruise?"

              I will have to say no, find a friend to go with.

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                • Stiletto
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 11260
                  #5
                  Re: Drag racing pachyderms

                  Originally posted by skuthorp
                  I live in horror of the day Anne says "How about we go on a cruise?"

                  I will have to say no, find a friend to go with.
                  I feel the same, it would make me feel like I was trapped in a mall.
                  There is nothing quite as permanent as a good temporary repair.

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                    • David G
                      Senior Member
                      • Dec 2003
                      • 89912
                      #6
                      Re: Drag racing pachyderms

                      I have a friend who's done the Inside Passage a couple of times on a 'cruise boat' of sorts. It's a small working cargo vessel, with a couple of passenger staterooms. He loves that approach.
                      David G
                      Harbor Woodworks
                      https://www.facebook.com/HarborWoodworks/

                      "It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)

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                        • John Meachen
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2004
                          • 10502
                          #7
                          Re: Drag racing pachyderms

                          From the thread title I was expecting these.



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