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Hi Dave, a new fleet of virtual boats at your disposal - fun.

I don't know if you have started playing yet - here is a place to practice docking in the simulator.

- In the menu at top select: scenery, Motorboat Simulator Instruction Area.
- Head west toward the buoys and lighthouse
- Follow the channel markers (remember green right returning) in the IALA A system
- Inside the breakwater are finger piers and a larger quay dock where you can also practice with your lines

I would recommend using the cruiser. Single screw right hand inboard with a bow thruster.

If you save the situation you can start there the next time and try other docking maneuvers, adjust wind etc...

Fair winds and following seas.

Chris
 
davehogue555":putxisz4 said:
Charlie, the helm on the R21 is right in the middle(amidships), so she can go either way :D
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Dave, I think you mean the rudder, not the helm. The rudder is the thingy underwater, the helm is up where you steer from, either a wheel, tiller or the like... Most rudders are midship on single engine craft/boats but if they're small, they don't help steering/direction while in reverse until you get going pretty fast.... :shock:

Charlie
 
Captains Choice":22aa7v9b said:
Don, is this your boat? Couldn't find anything off oregon/washington.
USS H-3 salvage efforts, April 1917.

The internet is a wonderful tool!
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Bingo, Charlie. I went through all of the photos on that site and it looks like mine are unique and probably taken with his (or someone's) old "Box Brownie." My shots show a big 4 stacker ship further out to sea, broadside to the shore and listing, which has to be the USS Milwaukee. I had forgotten the actual spot where it was grounded. Wow, to think Mary and I make the "Samoa Cookhouse" a regular stop while passing through Eureka. It'll never be the same again....

Fascinating.

One "Sea Story" he told was when a British cruiser drilled his boat (the N-3) with a 6" round during "The Big War." Apparently the N-3 surfaced and the Brits thought it was a German sub and blasted away. The round hit the forward room (Torpedo room) and simply drilled an "innie and and outie" through both sides without detonating. Now that had to be skivvie changing time for those folks up forward!
 
Captains Choice":2wxfslit said:
Marty, a true sea story usually begins,
Now this is a no shi--er
Charlie
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Indeed. In the Navy we learned very quickly that the difference between a Sea Story and a Fairy Tale is that a Fairy Tale started out with
Once upon a time, and a Sea Story always started out Now this is a no shi--er

Makes no difference, adult fairy tales are as beerworthy as sea stories. :beer :beer

Don
 
Welcome to site. I am not a seasoned member but am also a submariner. I was only on Nuc boats and they were large single screw boats which were harder than diesels to handle so they never let us come into New London without a tug attending.

I am very interested in your thought on the Ranger 21. I have been looking at the Ranger tug but Big $$$$$.

My advice is to listen to Doctor Bob (Thataway). I have yet to disagree with his view on any subject.
 
This is really neat stuff. Thanks you guys for telling the tales and for living them. And that is a no shi--er!
 
cmdnav":1wqyi985 said:
Hi Dave, a new fleet of virtual boats at your disposal - fun.

I don't know if you have started playing yet - here is a place to practice docking in the simulator.

- In the menu at top select: scenery, Motorboat Simulator Instruction Area.
- Head west toward the buoys and lighthouse
- Follow the channel markers (remember green right returning) in the IALA A system
- Inside the breakwater are finger piers and a larger quay dock where you can also practice with your lines

I would recommend using the cruiser. Single screw right hand inboard with a bow thruster.

If you save the situation you can start there the next time and try other docking maneuvers, adjust wind etc...

Fair winds and following seas.

Chris
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Here's one that was on this site some time ago, it'll drive you nuts but it's free and fun to play with.

DOCKING SIMULATOR

Charlie
 
commander bill":3tjl34mp said:
Welcome to site. I am not a seasoned member but am also a submariner.
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Hey good to hear from another submariner. Nukes? Were you forward of the reactor or aft? I went both ways, nuke and diesel, but never engineering. I think Dave did the same.

Seasoning not required. Between Dusty and Charlie we've got all the seasoning necessary on here.

Speaking of Dusty, you flew TBM's during WWII? Holy Death Coffins, just flying those in combat was the equivalent of an unsanctioned Kamakazi trip, wasn't it? I wanna know how you ended up upside down on deck, or is gonna cost me a beer at SBS to hear about that too?

Don
 
Hey Don,

That will definitely cost a beer! Best not get into this one here. Some Zero pilot wanted part of my right wing, and it didn't fly very well coming aboard. Right wing stalled, slow roll to the right - splash.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dusty
 
Charlie, that was supposed to be a humorous reply (note the smiley face) to your statement that being European they may drive on the left. I thought you were referring to the way they drive their autos, there the steering wheel (helm) is on the right, here it is on the left in our cars. I said the helm was in the middle so she could go either way. I don't know yet how to operate a single screw inboard, but I do know the difference between the helm and the rudder (thingy in the water). I apologize, I was trying to be funny, but was misinterpreted.
Dave
 
Oops, my mistake, Dusty. I confused the TBD2 with the TBM and that gave rise to the "Sanction kamakazi" coffin aircraft remark. Those pilots (TBD2) had major cahones to get out there in those "Tin Lizzies" up against all that firepower.

Oh yah, George Bush splashed a TBM too, and look where he ended up....

Did yer crew get out OK?
 
TBM was much worse, dang it. One of my rear gunners, not on that flight, decided acting was more fun than flying - guy by the name of Paul Newman. But that's another one for the SBS. And Charlie knows how that one starts :lol: :lol:

Don, on one strike we had more TBM crews in rescue subs than aboard the carrier. Thank you so much! But on that trip I decided diesel boats were not my favorite mode of transportation. OTOH it sure beat swimming with great whites.

Dusty
 
It is amazing what the old timers were able to do without modern equipment. Looking at that sequence of photos of them moving the sub and the simplicity of their equipment is amazing. It looks like even back then, when you got bureaucrats out of the process, man was able to do a lot more for less.
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Sneaks wrote: Hey good to hear from another submariner. Nukes? Were you forward of the reactor or aft? I went both ways, nuke and diesel, but never engineering. I think Dave did the same.

(I did this quote thing manually, how the heck do you get the forum to do it?)

I was strictly aft on the nukes, SPCP AND EPCP watches. Normal patrol was 56 to 60 days, but last run we took the Edison into the yards at Charleston, SC and that was 72 days underwater. That's a long time without seeing the light of day!
 
davehogue555":1e1llljw said:
(I did this quote thing manually, how the heck do you get the forum to do it?)!
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davehogue555":8o03dmo6 said:
Charlie, that was supposed to be a humorous reply (note the smiley face) to your statement that being European they may drive on the left. I thought you were referring to the way they drive their autos, there the steering wheel (helm) is on the right, here it is on the left in our cars. I said the helm was in the middle so she could go either way. I don't know yet how to operate a single screw inboard, but I do know the difference between the helm and the rudder (thingy in the water). I apologize, I was trying to be funny, but was misinterpreted.
Dave
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No apology necessary Dave. Since Red is on the Left when returning to Harbor over there, not only do they drive on the "wrong" side of the road but they go on the wrong side of the channel markers too!! :shock:

It's hard enough for us engineers to drive a boat much less do it right...We can make it run but they don't let us blow the whistle very often :disgust They won't even let me on those sewer pipes you guys were on, for some reason they frown on sleeping with the windows open.... :smilep

Charlie
 
Just thought I'd mention, as an aside to these war stories, that there is a way cool PBY being restored at Skagit Valley Airport. Parked right next to the fence, so stop in and take a look.

Warren
 
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