For Sale: 108' ex US Navy training & research vessel

[Strypes]

Sweet! I'd buy it and turn it into a live aboard, but the Admiral doesn't think that it's big enough! LOL

[mako]

"you're certainly not going to take a wood hull into ice!"

The Calypso???? Tens of thousands of fishermen who live in places a lot harsher than Marina del Rey????

[Brob2]

Originally Posted by 14murs14

You mean Earnest, the guy whose wooden ship (Endeavor) was crushed in pack ice requiring him to take a modified lifeboat 700 miles to one of the Georgia islands? I don't think he would disagree, actually! Heck of a guy though.

Ya do know what that modified lifeboat was made out of, don't you?

[SunnyJ]

USS YMS-328 was a USN Minesweeper in WW2. Later she became John Wayne's yachtthe Wild Goose.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_YMS-328.

Cheers

SunnyJ

[Don C L]

In all seriousness, if I lived in the Seattle area and could rally some help, I'd love to see that boat cruising Puget Sound loaded with high school kids doing research. I wonder if there are any foundations or local tech millionaires who wouldn't mind helping something like that happen...?
BTW welcome here!