On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:23:29 -0500, DSK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
What I want to know is can you troll for pelagic species off the stern
of that thing? You know, really big marlin? :)

I actually did that once - Army transport to Panama for a joint
training exercise. Ever the fisherman, I had a big Mitchell spinning
reel and some heavy dacron line. One of the Army Quartermasters found
a piece of wood on the ship that looked like an old railing - rigged
up some guides out of nails and went fishing.

Didn't catch anything, but the Army types thought it was pretty funny.
Even the Captain came down to take a turn on the reel. :)

I think I have a picture of that around here in the old timey files -
I'll see if I can't find it.


Yep. Can't do it in transit because those things MOVE... generally 20+
knots. But when the ship is on station and just hanging around, it would
be possible to troll off the fantail. Not sure the carriers ever hang
around going slow, they are too valuable & vulnerable a target... makes
the Navy nervous. However if they did, you could. It would a problem
standing so high above the water... you'd probably be at least 50' up!

The tin can I was on spent a lot of time making slow circles waiting for
something to happen. Fishing off the fantail was quite popular. I don't
recall any marlins being dragged aboard, but did see a few dolphin and a
lot of sharks. Delicious.

My Dad commanded a DE during WWII and used to fish off the stern all
the time - I saw some pictures his Exec took of them cod fishing
before picking up a convoy.

When he was transferred to the Pacific on a Tin Can, he told me he
never really had time.

Later,

Tom

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:



My Dad commanded a DE during WWII and used to fish off the stern all
the time - I saw some pictures his Exec took of them cod fishing
before picking up a convoy.

When he was transferred to the Pacific on a Tin Can, he told me he
never really had time.

Later,

Tom

Which brings me to my story ....

I was also stationed on a DE for part of my Navy "experience". It was
of mid-50's vintage and had been retrofitted with a new passive sonar
system that was towed behind the ship, listening for subs. This duty was
about the most boring time you can imagine because the ship spent weeks
at a time trolling the sonar at 7 knots, day in and day out.

So, one Sunday afternoon during "holiday routine" a couple of friends
and I decided to fly kites off the fantail. We had decided on a previous
cruise that this would be a great idea, and it was .. the kites flew
perfectly. Being the young smart-asses that we were at the time we
decided to attach a small flasher light to each kite, stolen from some
life vests. The kites carried them aloft with no problem, but you
couldn't see the lights in the daylight.

Bored with this after a while, we tied the lines to the rail on the
fantail and forgot about them.

Later that evening I had a watch to stand. I happened to step into the
Radio Shack to find all kinds of excitement. An Operational Immediate
message was about to be transmitted that contained items like:

"Negative signature of object on radar despite re-calibration and test"
and
"Object follows all course changes"

I knew then I was in deep ****.

Eisboch

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:01:22 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:



My Dad commanded a DE during WWII and used to fish off the stern all
the time - I saw some pictures his Exec took of them cod fishing
before picking up a convoy.

When he was transferred to the Pacific on a Tin Can, he told me he
never really had time.

Later,

Tom

Which brings me to my story ....

I was also stationed on a DE for part of my Navy "experience". It was
of mid-50's vintage and had been retrofitted with a new passive sonar
system that was towed behind the ship, listening for subs. This duty was
about the most boring time you can imagine because the ship spent weeks
at a time trolling the sonar at 7 knots, day in and day out.

So, one Sunday afternoon during "holiday routine" a couple of friends
and I decided to fly kites off the fantail. We had decided on a previous
cruise that this would be a great idea, and it was .. the kites flew
perfectly. Being the young smart-asses that we were at the time we
decided to attach a small flasher light to each kite, stolen from some
life vests. The kites carried them aloft with no problem, but you
couldn't see the lights in the daylight.

Bored with this after a while, we tied the lines to the rail on the
fantail and forgot about them.

Later that evening I had a watch to stand. I happened to step into the
Radio Shack to find all kinds of excitement. An Operational Immediate
message was about to be transmitted that contained items like:

"Negative signature of object on radar despite re-calibration and test"
and
"Object follows all course changes"

I knew then I was in deep ****.

ROTFL!!!!!! Oh man, that's funny.

Later,

Tom

Eisboch wrote:
..... I happened to step into the
Radio Shack to find all kinds of excitement. An Operational Immediate
message was about to be transmitted that contained items like:

"Negative signature of object on radar despite re-calibration and test"
and
"Object follows all course changes"

I knew then I was in deep ****.

Now *that's* funny. Do you mind if I forward this to one of my Navy
buddies, who was an electronics tech?

Regards
Doug King

DSK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

..... I happened to step into the
Radio Shack to find all kinds of excitement. An Operational Immediate
message was about to be transmitted that contained items like:

"Negative signature of object on radar despite re-calibration and test"
and
"Object follows all course changes"

I knew then I was in deep ****.


Now *that's* funny. Do you mind if I forward this to one of my Navy
buddies, who was an electronics tech?

Regards
Doug King


Help yourself. Maybe he was one of my kite flying friends.

Eisboch (ex-ET1)

On 11/12/2004 7:14 AM, JohnH wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:33:25 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

I'm concerned that they seem to be anchored on an all chain rode.

Jax says that is very dangerous, something about catenaries.

:-)


COTK!

??

(I'm not familiar with that acronym...)


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

JohnH wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:00:11 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:


I was just reading some information on my son's (Eisboch Jr.) new boat.
Some of the impressive statistics:


Propellers: 4, bronze, 21 feet across

Rudders: 2, each 29 feet by 22 feet

Anchors: 2, each weighing 30 tons

Anchor chains: 2, each 1,041 feet, 684 links, individual link weighs 365
pounds

Distillation plants: Provide 400,000 gallons of fresh water daily from
the sea water, enough to supply 2,000 homes

Toilet paper: 100,000 rolls

Power plant: 2 nuclear reactors that can go 20 years without refueling

Name: USS Harry S. Truman (currently heading for duty in the Persian Gulf)

Eisboch


That's one hell of a lobsta' boat!

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Losta boat?? did I hear lobsta boat??? Oops sorry John my auto
tracking system painted you in error, apologies again:-)

But we can probably expect a brand new Krause "my father" story, I feel
yet another fire tug welcome into NY harbour???? or maybe his father's
biggest dealership in the NE sold the navy that particular boat????
maybe nuclear fichts all across the stern??? maybe that's why they melt
down or have been melted down?? it's all maybes really the vagaries of
medication mean his mind can't be predicted; coming to a NG near you:-)

Well done eisboch you must & should be proud of him, best thoughts for
his return & thanks from all in the coalition.

Just hope mum doesn't buy 'him" his own boat also:-)

K

K. Smith wrote:


Losta boat?? did I hear lobsta boat??? Oops sorry John my auto
tracking system painted you in error, apologies again:-)

But we can probably expect a brand new Krause "my father" story, I
feel yet another fire tug welcome into NY harbour???? or maybe his
father's biggest dealership in the NE sold the navy that particular
boat???? maybe nuclear fichts all across the stern??? maybe that's why
they melt down or have been melted down?? it's all maybes really the
vagaries of medication mean his mind can't be predicted; coming to a NG
near you:-)

Well done eisboch you must & should be proud of him, best thoughts
for his return & thanks from all in the coalition.

Just hope mum doesn't buy 'him" his own boat also:-)

K


Isn't it just downright refreshing to get off the politics and back to
our regularly scheduled programming? :-)

Thanks for your best wishes for the kid, K.

Eisboch

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 14:47:13 -0800, Garth Almgren
wrote:

On 11/12/2004 7:14 AM, JohnH wrote:

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:33:25 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

I'm concerned that they seem to be anchored on an all chain rode.

Jax says that is very dangerous, something about catenaries.

:-)


COTK!

??

(I'm not familiar with that acronym...)

Coffee on the keyboard!

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

Eisboch wrote:
K. Smith wrote:


Losta boat?? did I hear lobsta boat??? Oops sorry John my auto
tracking system painted you in error, apologies again:-)

But we can probably expect a brand new Krause "my father" story, I
feel yet another fire tug welcome into NY harbour???? or maybe his
father's biggest dealership in the NE sold the navy that particular
boat???? maybe nuclear fichts all across the stern??? maybe that's why
they melt down or have been melted down?? it's all maybes really the
vagaries of medication mean his mind can't be predicted; coming to a
NG near you:-)

Well done eisboch you must & should be proud of him, best thoughts
for his return & thanks from all in the coalition.

Just hope mum doesn't buy 'him" his own boat also:-)

K



Isn't it just downright refreshing to get off the politics and back to
our regularly scheduled programming? :-)

Thanks for your best wishes for the kid, K.

Eisboch


It certainly is & thanks to the news servers who have finally started
deleting the anons & hopefully will soon get the x no archivers also.

I love Mrs E:-) over the years you've mentioned lots about her & she's
got ingredient X, you're a lucky man, probably well deserved I know, but
still:-)

We have a family here who have 2 GBs a 42 & 36, while they both look
magnificent underway (the 42 doesn't even lift it's bow, just throws a
destroyer like ever bigger bone in it's teeth) the 36 with it's
uninterrupted sheer line is by far the prettiest when they're moored up.

The 42 regularly goes up to our barrier reef, what is a big deal 3mths
trip for the rest of us is just a quick month away for them. We oft talk
about the fuel they must use???

All the best

K