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One nice thing I remember about the Navy.... whenever we would pull into places like Subic, honk kong and Tailand, we had no shortage of small boats coming alonside with paint brushes ready to go. All we had to do was hand over the paint and some old scrap brass for payment and off they went. We just had to make sure they chipped the rust out good before slapping on the paint. We had so much paint built up over 50+ years of steaming on one ship that the last time it sailed through the Panama canal we kept getting hung up in the locks and scraping huge layers of paint off. That boat was designed to just barely squeak through in the 40's with 2 inches to spare I think on each side.
I hope between my inspection and a surveyor noone will be able to get anything past us. It sucks finding rust holes in the hull the hard way.
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