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Old 27-05-2011, 00:59   #1
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Fabulous Photos on CF

You do get some really good photos on CF, this one popped up when I logged on this morning. Can just imagine trying to get this lot through even a small town.

Photo by Alan Wheeler
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Old 27-05-2011, 01:24   #2
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Pretty amazing...thanks Pete.
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Old 30-05-2011, 13:10   #3
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I bet you couldn't get penny between that driver's cheeks
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Looks like they got the right figure for longitudinal center of gravity on that boat.
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Hope someone stowed the crystal glasses.
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great way to get the bilges really dry,and nice and easy to paint,standing up.........
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Old 30-05-2011, 17:12   #7
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Our haul was preceded by 5 years of > 100 hour work weeks, (between my wife and I), and regular 75 mile trips along the route, chopping limbs and such. Between the trees/growth and "development", the route to a series of lakes & rivers was closing around me. (I even looked into a helicopter lift!) $$$

This led to our launching several years before completion, and required finishing up at the coast, 150 miles from our house/boatyard in the countryside of central SC.

After enough begging at the DOT... (and since it's 21+ ' was too wide, getting them to "call it a house"), followed by acquiring permits from 3 counties, hiring a crane, truck, escort service, etc... we finally made it to the SHALLOW "bass boats only" lake full of stumps & trees, (hit a submerged tree at speed), then locked down 78' to the Cooper River headwaters, for the final 75 miles to the sea.

It was definitely a "sphincter factor of 10".

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Transporting on side to reduce vertical height problems?
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Mark, did you pass by Bock Marine just North of Beaufort NC on the ICW today or yesterday (my days run together)? A tri fairly similar to yours, if it wasn't you, caught my eye as it made its way North past the yard. Great looking rig..

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Mark, did you pass by Bock Marine just North of Beaufort NC on the ICW today or yesterday (my days run together)? A tri fairly similar to yours, if it wasn't you, caught my eye as it made its way North past the yard. Great looking rig..

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Thanks Jonathon, Yes that was me. We had spent the week @ Cape Lookout and were headed for the South River. M.
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Transporting on side to reduce vertical height problems?
Yeah I would guess, one of many of their problems.
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Yuk,

This one appeared on my screen this morning:

Deck Tear-out; Dec. 15th, 2002 - Cruisers & Sailing Photo Gallery

Thank god for for plastic.

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This is my Mumby 48 which is going to be the retirement plan on the way to the water. All I've got to do now is retire!!!
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Is that aluminum?
More pics more pics...
If boats on trucks allows inclusion, this is my Dhow on the way to being launched last year in southern Yemen.
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Heres the only pic I have from when my lump of scrap was delivered. Maybe in another 12 months I will take some more on the journey to splash day
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