Meet Billy Badass

[BOSBoatMan]

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American steel right there!

 

[WRHardie]

That is killer! Reminds me of the old WW I style battleships. The bulb looks bigger than my appartment!

 

[cb34]

Wet ride

Talk about a wet ride:-o

 

[Toolate]

From the site

"These guns have water-cooled barrels capable of hitting targets up to 83 nautical miles away at 10 rounds per minute."

Good to be on our team.

Crazy design right? Wave piercing.

 

[Old Mud]

DDG 1000 Pics: Billy Badass Has Arrived | gCaptain

American steel right there!

Yep !!, all except the Rolls-Royce Turbines. I am only about 3/4 of a mile from her construction . Christening had to be postponed because of the government shutdown. Should have been this week.

 

[Madchark]

Lets get Old Mud to sneak in and pull the cord to let her slide down the flume and save us some money.

 

[BOSBoatMan]

Good to hear it was postponed by a government shutdown and not some lazy assed military contractor that was pissed off at his employer and decided to torch the joint like up in Kittery

 

[Old Mud]

Lets get Old Mud to sneak in and pull the cord to let her slide down the flume and save us some money.

No more pullin the cord or dropping the lever. A dozen or more years ago they ordered a floating dry dock (from China) :roll:, filled In some acres On the Kennebec and called it the LLTF (. Land Level Transfer Facility).

Now the boats are built on level ground and transferred into the dry dock (by rails) and floated out into the river where the dry dock is flooded and the ship float off.

The tradition and excitement of the ships sliding down the ways is forever lost at Bath as in many other Commercial shipbuilders. It's all about the money, Not the Tradition. The word I heard is "you can't feed your family and pay your taxes with tradition" .

Such a shame some folks just don't get it. Perhaps "the rules" are made by much younger folks these days !!. I for one would give up most of what I own to help these Traditions continue !!.

Sorry for the RANT . I'm going to go haul a boat.

 

[BOSBoatMan]

Well, if you're feeling nostalgic my clubs taking out a pair of twenty-tonners weekend of the 2nd and 3rd....we use a marine railway and the wooden rollers to move them around our yard....more hands on deck the better.

 

[Old Mud]

Well, if you're feeling nostalgic my clubs taking out a pair of twenty-tonners weekend of the 2nd and 3rd....we use a marine railway and the wooden rollers to move them around our yard....more hands on deck the better.

I should be in NH babysitting on the 1st and maybe the 2nd. I don't usually try to get out of sitting because they are my Grandchildren. BUT !!!!, for an occasion like this I may try. :lol: Do you really need help or was that a joke ? Where are you located. (physical address) You can PM me if you would rather.

Don

 

[BOSBoatMan]

LOL it was a half-hearted joke...yeah we need some extra hands on deck to move these beasts but for liability purposes we can't have anybody that's not a member assist...I was just pokin' fun 'cause I know you were all upset about the bogus way the Navy launches it's boats now...

 

[Old Mud]

LOL, yeah "I am a little upset" to say the least !!. Oh and yeah, Bogus is a good word. Guess I just think if we loose our Traditions All is lost, money be Dam.

I understand about the liability, we have after all turned into a sue society.